tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4403332446029235884..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Samuel Johnson on Scotland and the Scots, as Reported by BoswellUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22309625274701208742012-03-16T03:49:48.259-07:002012-03-16T03:49:48.259-07:00(Should not be forgot that he, JB that is, was aft...(Should not be forgot that he, JB that is, was after all as bad a lawyer as he was wonderful a scribe of the particulars of a life...)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90376354087602318842012-03-16T03:46:12.167-07:002012-03-16T03:46:12.167-07:00At this point in the dialogue one can only say Dal...At this point in the dialogue one can only say Dal that you have made the Clan of Duncan proud and done a far stouter job of representing your Scots blood than did <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/James_Boswell_by_Sir_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg" rel="nofollow">James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck</a>.<br /><br />Not of course that Saml Johnson would have been so easily stood up to on the day and in any case, but still.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10082165330711581002012-03-15T20:46:10.020-07:002012-03-15T20:46:10.020-07:00http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scotlandshistory/cale...http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scotlandshistory/caledonianspictsromans/hadrianswall/index.asp<br /><br />Earlier attributed to The Romans, experts have been forced to rethink this in light of a recently discovered inscription at the western end: ‘Made in China.’<br /><br />Must curl up to my stony pillow now and pull a blanket of fog over me zzzzzzzzzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60245389802576312092012-03-15T20:07:09.398-07:002012-03-15T20:07:09.398-07:00Well the Romans must have thought that there was g...Well the Romans must have thought that there was gold kin them thar hills ..... but the legions sent in never came back to tell the tale. I don't think they fought in formation on a battlefield though<br /><br />Hey on a cheerier note We did invent a game designed to torment our enemies to distraction - golf Oh and who can deny the nail-biting excitement of curling?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67174261933114764672012-03-15T19:47:58.967-07:002012-03-15T19:47:58.967-07:00A common Sassenach mistake but Scotch or usqueba...A common Sassenach mistake but Scotch or usquebae or whisky (water of life) is an alcoholic drink. Scots would be the correct word for the bipeds Although the mistake is understandable considering the volume consumption of some of the natives I still miss the feel and smell of the placeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75275893526062586472012-03-15T19:32:42.922-07:002012-03-15T19:32:42.922-07:00Ahhhhhh how can i forget ..... summer holidays h...Ahhhhhh how can i forget ..... summer holidays huddling by a stone wall with the in-laws (and out-laws) nibbling on a shared crustAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71437272349155279822012-03-15T19:25:26.001-07:002012-03-15T19:25:26.001-07:00Scotland looks lovely to me. Not an automotive ve...Scotland looks lovely to me. Not an automotive vehicle in sight. A bit rugged, perhaps, but no colder than we have it here, and about equally grey and wet. And who wouldn't prefer a bit of heather, a bog or two and the occasional scatter of glacial erratics to concrete and more concrete.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76473518181673772972012-03-15T12:48:56.286-07:002012-03-15T12:48:56.286-07:00Tom,
Aye laddie, what a land -- all those rocks a...Tom,<br /><br />Aye laddie, what a land -- all those rocks and that heather. Poor Dr. Johnson, must've been listening to the wrong radio (some ancestor of Rush Limbaugh was it?). Ben Jonson went on a walking tour, as I recall, with Drummond of Hawthornden, left us "My Picture Left in Scotland" w/ eyewitness account of "My mountain belly and my rocky face."<br />It looks a bit like Scotland here today -- the green field become a bog, the ridge disappeared in fog.<br /><br />3.15<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />ridge, song sparrow calling from branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> corresponding line at first<br /> appeared, during past<br /><br /> what follows, in space-time<br /> continuum, measure of<br /><br />grey rain cloud against plane of ridge,<br />windblown drops splashing into channelSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30815495113500823242012-03-15T09:25:18.458-07:002012-03-15T09:25:18.458-07:00And now the question is--
Will Scotland become ind...And now the question is--<br />Will Scotland become independent? With all that oil revenue, they are sitting pretty, and I think the British are not to eager to have them set free . . . barren or not. <br /><br />But it does look pretty, doesn't it? I'd take stone and water over stone and sand any day, and that seems to be what most of the battles or for--<br />I mean --<br />what the battles we most fear are for. <br />Not to articulate today . . .Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86685435040458520852012-03-15T08:58:37.479-07:002012-03-15T08:58:37.479-07:00But those Scotchwomen have bottoms of good sense.But those Scotchwomen have bottoms of good sense.Delia Psychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158noreply@blogger.com