 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...measure under a deeper die. However, I'le superscribe it the nonsuch of Scotland, where an Engl'uh florist may pick up a posie ; so that, should the...flourish amongst them, yet would I celebrate thy praise, O Glasgo-л ! because of those pleasant and fragrant flowers that so sweetly refrcsh'd me, and ' 311... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...to my apprehension, an emblem of England, though, in some measure, under a deeper die. However, I'll superscribe it the nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posy ; so that should the residue of their cities, in our northern progress, seem as barren as uncultivated... | |
 | Richard Franck - Fishing - 1821 - 456 pages
...perhaps might have anticipated. A satirist with respect to every other place, Franck describes Glasgow as the " nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posy." Commerce had already brought wealth to Glasgow, and with wealth seems to have arisen an attention... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...my apprehension, an emblem of England, though, in -some measure, under a deeper die. However, I'll superscribe it the nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posy ; so that should the residue of their cities, in our northern progress, seem as barren as uncultivated... | |
 | John M'Ure - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1830 - 412 pages
...perhaps might have anticipated. A satirist with respect to every other place, Franck describes Glasgow as the " nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posie." Commerce had already brought wealth to Glasgow, and with wealth seems to have arisen an attention to... | |
 | Kentigern (st.) - 1843 - 454 pages
...perhaps might have anticipated. A satirist with respect to every other place, Frank describes Glasgow as the "nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posie." Commerce had already brought wealth to Glasgow, and with wealth seems to have arisen an attention to... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1848 - 188 pages
...channels are so cleanly swept, and the meat in every house so artificially dressed ? ''''' * * I'll superscribe it the non-such of Scotland, where an...may pick up a posie; so that should the residue of her cities, in our northern progress, seem as barren as uncultivated fields, and every field so replenished... | |
 | John M'Ure - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1873 - 670 pages
...England, though, in some measure, under a deeper die. However, I le superscribe it the Nvnsuck ¡>f Scotland, where an English Florist may pick up a Posie...flourish amongst them, yet would I celebrate thy praise, О Glasgow ! because of those pleasant and fragrant Flowers that so sweetly refresh'd me, and, to admiration,... | |
 | Æneas James G. Mackay - 1873 - 362 pages
...river, moved the admiration of travellers, who compared it with Oxford. One of these describes it " as the non-such of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posie;" another be returned to France, became Professor of Divinity at Montauban, and died in 1625 at the age... | |
 | Andrew Macgeorge - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1880 - 396 pages
...have perhaps anticipated. A satirist with regard to every other place " Franck describes Glasgow as ' the nonsuch of Scotland,' where ' an " ' English florist may pick up a posie.' Commerce had already brought " wealth to Glasgow, and with wealth seems to have arisen an attention... | |
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I'le superscribe it the nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posie ; so that should the residue of their cities, in our northern progress, seem as barren as uncultivated fields, and every field so replenished with thistles that... 
