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11 Prince's-Street 195 High-Street Abbey affords Allan Ramsay ancient apartment arches arrives in Edinburgh Arthur's Seat beautiful Black Bull building burgh called Calton Hill Canongate Castle celebrated centre Chapel Charles Church City close Coaches columns commenced Court of Session Cowgate Crown Doric Doric order Duke Earl east edifice Edin elegant enter entrance erected establishment Faculty of Advocates feet formerly front gallery George George Heriot George IV Glasgow Gothic Grassmarket Grecian hall handsome height Heriot Holyrood institution James James VI late Leith London Lord Lord Justice Clerk magnificent Mail mansion Mary ment metropolis monument Newhaven North Bridge north side occupied Old Town ornamented Outer House Palace Parliament passing past period picturesque portico portion present Prince's Prince's-Street Queen residence rises Royal Scotland Scottish south side splendid square stone stranger will find stranger will observe street structure tion Tolbooth tower walls whole William Burn
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Page 54 - 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 65 - And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Page 3 - What the tour of Europe was necessary to see elsewhere I now find congregated in this one city. Here are alike the beauties of Prague and of...
Page 82 - Cross, a pillar'd stone, Rose on a turret octagon ; (But now is razed that monument, Whence royal edict rang, And voice of Scotland's law was sent In glorious trumpet clang. O ! be his tomb as lead to lead, Upon its dull destroyer's head ! — A minstrel's malison * is said.
Page 68 - Sin' my true-love's forsaken me. Old Song. IF I were to choose a spot from which the rising or setting sun could be seen to the greatest possible advantage, it would be that wild path winding around the foot of the high belt of semicircular rocks, called Salisbury...
Page 56 - The insane being, hearing everything unusually still around, the house being completely deserted, and the Canongate like a city of the dead, and observing his keeper to be absent, broke loose from his confinement, and roamed wildly through the house. It is supposed that the savoury odour of the preparations for dinner led him to the kitchen, where he found the little turnspit quietly seated by the fire. He seized the boy, killed him, took the meat from the fire, and spitted the body of his victim,...
Page 79 - Ferguson, whose irregularities sometimes led him into unpleasant rencontres with these military conservators of public order, and who mentions them so often that he may be termed their...
Page 81 - The entry to this building was by a door fronting the Netherbow, which gave access to a stair in the inside, leading to a platform on the top of the building. From the platform rose a column consisting of one stone, upwards of twenty feet high, and fifteen inches diameter, spangled with thistles, and adorned with a Corinthian capital, upon the top of which was an unicorn.
Page 122 - His immense fortune he disposed of by a will made in 1623 ; in which he remembered all his relations, with many friends and servants, both in England and Scotland, and left the remainder, in trust, to the magistrates of Edinburgh, to found and endow a hospital " for the maintenance, relief, and bringing up of so many poor and fatherless boys, freemen's sons of the town of Edinburgh, as the sum should be sufficient for.
Page 81 - Gothic, the building was octagon, of sixteen feet diameter, about fifteen feet high, besides the pillar in the centre. At each angle there was an ionic pillar, from the top of which a species of Gothic bastion projected ; and between the columns there were modern arches. Upon the top of the arch fronting the Netherbow, the town's arms were cut in the shape of a medallion, in rude workmanship ; over the other arches, heads also, in the shape of a medallion, were placed. The entry to this...