This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...Stirling we met with a company of travellers from Edinburgh, among whom was a character in many respects congenial with that of Burns. This was Nieol, one of the teachers of the High Grammar School at Edinburgh--the same wit and power of conversation, the same fondness for convivial society, and thoughtlessness of to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...Stirling we met with a company of travellers from Edinburgh, among whom was a character in many respects congenial with that of Burns. This was Nieol, one of the teachers of the High Grammar School at Edinburgh--the same wit and power of conversation, the same fondness for convivial society, and thoughtlessness of to-morrow, characterised both. Jacobitical principles in politics were common to both of them; and these have been suspected, since the revolution of.France, to have given place in each to opinions apparently opposite.+ I regret that I have preserved no in a hackney coach with her brother and two sisters, and brother's wife.-We had dined altogether at a common friend's house in Leith, and drank, danced, and sang, tili late enough. The night was dark, the claret had been good, and I thirsty " The remainder is wanting. It is not impossible that, if the Armours had chosen, they might have had some chance of proving a marriage between Jean and Burns at law; but this chance must have been very small. Meanwhile, as the case stood, all parties were content that they should be considered as perfectly free persons. Thiri gentleman is long since dead, 1838. t It was probably at this time that certain obnoxious stanzas of motoriety were written on a pane of glass in the apartment occupied by the poet and his friend: --' Here Stuarts once in triumph reigned, And laws for Scotia's weal ordained; But now unroofed their palace stands, Their sceptre's swayed by other hands. The injured Stuart line is gone, A race outlandish fills the throne--An idiot race, to honour lost: -Who know them best, despise them most." Those lines have usually been attributed to Burns, notwithstanding an obvious want of that peculiar concentration and emphasis which he gave to a...
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