Old Edinburgh: Being an Account of the Ancient Capital of the Kingdom of Scotland, Including Its Streets, Houses, Notable Inhabitants, and Customs in the Olden Time, Volume 1L.C. Page, 1908 - Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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Old Edinburgh; Being an Account of the Ancient Capital of the ..., Volume 2 Frederick W. Watkeys No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 206 - Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street, The bells are rung backward, the drums they are beat; But the Provost, douce man, said, ' Just e'en let him be, The Gude Town is weel quit of that Deil of Dundee.
Page 206 - Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle the horses and call up the men, Come open your gates, and let me gae free, For it's up with the bonnets of Bonny Dundee...
Page 255 - Cockpen he's proud and he's great, His mind is ta'en up with the things o' the state ; He wanted a wife his braw house to keep, But favour wi' wooin
Page 366 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 256 - Her mutch wi' red ribbons, and gaed awa' doun. And when she cam' ben, he bowed fu' low, And what was his errand he soon let her know ; Amazed was the Laird when the lady said Na; And wi' a laigh curtsie she turned awa'.
Page 232 - Argyll on the bed, sleeping in his irons, the placid sleep of infancy. The conscience of the renegade smote him. He turned away, sick at heart, ran out of the Castle and took refuge in the dwelling of a lady of his family who lived hard by.
Page 85 - Quhen Merche wes with variand windis past, And Appryll had, with hir silver schouris, Tane leif at nature with ane orient blast; And lusty May, that muddir is of flouris, Had maid the birdis to begyn thair houris Amang the tendir odouris reid and quhyt, Quhois armony to heir it wes delyt...
Page 188 - brave company of soldiers, all clad in white satin doublets, black velvet breeches, and silk stockings, with hats, feathers, scarfs, and bands. These gallants had dainty muskets, pikes, and gilded partisans." Six trumpeters, in gold lace and scarlet, preceded the procession, which moved slowly from the Castle gate. Then came the Lords in their robes of scarlet, ermined and laced, riding with long...
Page 256 - Jean was makin' the elder-flower wine : "And what brings the Laird at sic a like time ? " She put aff her apron, and on her silk gown, Her mutch wi' red ribbons, and gaed awa
Page 242 - His daughter tells me that her father's conversation had worked her feelings up to such a pitch, that when the lid was again removed, she nearly fainted, and drew back from the circle. As she was retiring, she was startled by his voice exclaiming, in a tone of the deepest emotion, " something between anger and despair," as she expresses it, —