Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, volume V (Of 10)
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, volume V (Of 10)
J G John Gibson Lockhart
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174} to show the tourists the most remarkable novelties inthe great manufacturing establishments of his flourishing city; and heremembers particularly the delight which Scott expressed on seeing theprocess of _singeing_ muslin--that is, of divesting the finished webof all superficial knots and irregularities, by passing it, with therapidity of lightning, over a bar of red-hot iron. "The man thatimagined this, " said Scott, "was _the Shakespeare of the Wabsters_, -- 'Things out of hope are compa...ss'd oft with vent'ring. '"[68] [Footnote 68: Shakespeare's Poems--_Venus and Adonis_. ] The following note indicates the next stages of his progress:-- TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, DRUMLANRIG CASTLE. SANQUHAR, 2 o'clock, July 30, [69] 1817. From Ross, where the clouds on Benlomond are sleeping-- From Greenock, where Clyde to the Ocean is sweeping-- From Largs, where the Scotch gave the Northmen a drilling-- From Ardrossan, whose harbor cost many a shilling-- From Old Cumnock, where beds are as hard as a plank, sir-- From a chop and green pease, and a chicken in Sanquhar, This eve, please the Fates, at Drumlanrig we anchor.
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