Edinburgh, Or The Ancient Royalty: A Sketch of Former Manners : with NotesManners & Miller, 1810 - 35 стор. |
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Adam's fame afford amongst amusement ANCIENT ROYALTY ANNA's golden age bard Bicker rages boast City clodhopper Closs common stairs Craftsmen of Edinburgh cunning Clerk cup returned dirty current Dome that swells draughts of wine drink a social dying swan Edina encreased fam'd Miss Nicky Fancy's FARMER fifty friends fools will buy forget gallant gratified hapless hath Hill after hill hill some cunning honour horse race Hotpress'd he shines John Knox labours lavish luxury mansions rise mark the Street Miss Nicky Murray motly neighbouring NOTE 12 NOTE 13 O'er draughts plough prythee quilting rasp'd the twisted satyr Scotland SIMON GRAY simple fools Sirach SKETCH social cup soul spacious spoons Squib swells your Adam's taste tavern Tea Parties Tea-pot thy sway Tier upon tier Town Fashion TOWNSMAN try to sing twisted rod typographie unhallowed phrase Vriter Wine and Marmalade wisdom is denied Wits of ANNA's Wynd youth
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Сторінка 39 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Сторінка 29 - Each lady's fan a chosen Damon bore, With care selected many a day before ; For, unprovided with a favourite beau, The nymph, chagrined, the ball must needs forego...
Сторінка 24 - Sootiman would dust his sacks. • Tier upon tier I see the mansions rise, * Whose azure summits mingle with the skies; There, from the earth the labouring porters bear The elements of fire and water high in air; There, as you scale the steps, with toilsome tread, The dripping barrel madifies your head; Thence, as adown the giddy round you wheel, A rising porter greets you with his creel!
Сторінка 33 - Those polish'd rounds which decorate the coat, And brilliant shine upon some youth of note, Offspring of Birmingham's creative art, Now from the faithful button-holes depart. To sudden twitch the rending stitches yield, And Enterprise again essays the field. So, when a few fleet years of his short span Have...
Сторінка 26 - O'er draughts of wine the beau would moan his love ; O'er draughts of wine the cit his bargain drove ; O'er draughts of wine the writer penned the will ; And legal wisdom counselled o'er a gill.
Сторінка 28 - That cup returned, now see the hostess ply The Tea-pot, measuring with equal eye. To all again, at once, she grants the boon, Dispensing her gunpowder by platoon. They chat of dress (as ladies will) and cards, And fifty friends within three hundred yards— Or now they listen all, in merry glee, While " Nancy Dawson," " Sandie o'er the lee" (Than foreign cadence surely sweeter far,) Ring on the jingling spinet or guitar.
Сторінка 32 - There, in the dirty current of the strand* Boys drop the rival corks with ready hand, And wading through the puddle with slow pace, Watch in solicitude the doubtful race ! — And there, an active band, with frequent boast, Vault in succession o'er each wooden post. Or a bold stripling, noted for his might, Heads the array, and rules the mimic fight. From hand and sling now fly the whizzing stones, Unheeded broken heads and broken bones; The rival hosts in close engagement mix, Drive and are driven...
Сторінка 34 - Have ripen'd this dire passion in the Man, When thousand after thousand takes its flight, In the short circuit of one wretched night, Next shall the honours of the forest fall, And ruin desolate the Chieftain's hall; Hill after hill some cunning clerk shall...
Сторінка 29 - Then the Assembly Close received the fair — Order and elegance presided there — Each gay Right Honourable had her place, To walk a minuet with becoming grace. No racing to the dance, with rival hurry — Such was thy sway, O famed Miss Nicky Murray...