Minor antiquities of Edinburgh, by the author of 'Traditions of Edinburgh' [to which it forms a suppl. Half title reads Reekiana].1833 |
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Common terms and phrases
afterwards Allan Ramsay ancient appears Auld Tolbuith baillies building built buith burgh called Canongate century Church close council counsall COUNTESS OF STAIR Court of Session Cowgate curious David Hume door Duc de Rohan Duke Earl Earl of Moray east Edin elegant English feet floor formerly French gentleman Grassmarket gude hall head High Street honour Hume inhabitants James James VI John King King's kingdom Kirk Lady Primrose Lady Stair's Close late Leith length lived lodged Lord lordis magistrates maister of wark Mary mile Moray night North Loch north side occasion occupied Old Tolbooth Outer-House palace Parliament House person present probably provest Queen quhilk residence scene Scotland Scots Scottish seat Somer south side stair stone stood story streittis styled supposed tavern thair thame thing tion took town Traditions of Edinburgh wall Water of Leith west end window Wynd
Popular passages
Page 259 - have my earl as well as she, Or know the reason why. I'll soon with Jenny's pride quit score, Make all her lovers fall; They'll grieve I was not loosed before, She, I was loosed at all.' Fondness prevail'd, mamma gave way; Kitty, at heart's desire. Obtained the chariot for a day, And set the world on fire
Page 265 - the stage. Our house has suffer'd in the common woe; We have been troubled with Scots rebels too. Our brethren have from Thames to Tweed departed, And of our sisters, all the kinder-hearted To Edinburgh gone, or coached or carted. With bonny blew cap there they act all night, For Scotch
Page 21 - of sodden meate; and when the table was served, the servants did sit downe with us; but the upper messe, in steede of porredge, had a pullet with some prunes in the broth. And I observed no art of cookery, or furniture of houshold stuffe, but rather rude neglect of both, though
Page 90 - It may appear strange that any thing like superstition should exist in Edinburgh, where, in the words of the poet,— " Justice from her native skies High wields her balance and her rod, And Learning, with his
Page 20 - My self was at a knights house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meate with their heads covered with blew caps, the table being more then halfe furnished with great platters of porredge, each having a little piece of sodden meate; and when the table was served, the servants did sit downe with us; but the upper messe, in
Page 27 - beheld, for I did never see or hear of a street of that length (which is half an English mile from the castle to a faire port which they calle the Neather Bow,) and from that port, the street which they call the
Page 181 - Carrots, Spinage, Cabbage, with all other sort of Pot Merchandise that belongs to the garden, but even her leather Chair of State, where she used to dispense Justice to the rest of her Langkale Vassals, were all very orderly burned; she herself countenancing the action with a high-flown flourish and vermillion majesty.
Page 240 - and Burleigh ; and of ministers, Mr David Dickson, Mr Robert Blair, and Mr James Guthry. What passed among them came not to be known infallibly; but it was talked very loud, that he did communicate to them his design in reference to the king, and had their assent
Page 27 - is one quarter of a mile more, down to the King's Palace, called Holyrood-House, the buildings on each side of the way being all of squared stone, five, six, and seven stories high, and many by-lanes and closes on each side of the way, wherein are gentlemen's houses, much fairer than the buildings in the High-Street, for in the HighStreet the merchants and tradesmen
Page 122 - by the united efforts of fire and foolery—must remember the Old Tolbooth. At the north-west corner of St Giles's Church, and almost in the very centre of a crowded street, stood this tall, narrow, antique, and gloomylooking pile, with its black stanchioned windows opening through its dingy walls, like the apertures