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. 1851 Excerpt: ...3 "The Guard-house was a long, low, ugly building (removed in 1787-8) which to a fanciful imagination might have suggested the idea of a long black snail crawling up the middle of the High Street, and deforming its beautiful esplanade."--Scott: --Heart of-WWZotAian, c. vi. A portrait of the Guard-house forms one of the ...
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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. 1851 Excerpt: ...3 "The Guard-house was a long, low, ugly building (removed in 1787-8) which to a fanciful imagination might have suggested the idea of a long black snail crawling up the middle of the High Street, and deforming its beautiful esplanade."--Scott: --Heart of-WWZotAian, c. vi. A portrait of the Guard-house forms one of the curious Collection by Kay, No. CLXX. Edin. 2 v'.Is. 4to. A lumbersome and stinkin bigging, That rides the sairest on my rigging. Poor me owr meikle do ye blame, For tradesmen tramping on your wame, Yet a' your advocates and braw fock' Come still to me 'twixt ane and twa clock, And never yet were kend to range At Charlie's Statue or Exchange. z Then tak your beaux and macaronies Gie me trades-fock and country Johnies; The deil's in't gin ye dinna sign Your sentiments conjunct wi' mine. PLAINSTANES. Gin we twa cou'd be as auld-farrant As gar the council gie a warrant, Ilk lown rebellious to tak, Wha walks not in the proper track, And o' three shilling Scottish suck him, Or in the water-hole sair douk him; This might assist the poor's collection, And gie baith parties satisfaction. Causey. But first, I think it will be good To bring it to the Robinhood,3 1 There is an etching of Parliament Square by David Allan which exhibits all this 'gay procession' very graphically. 2 Two places were laid with plainstanes for the convenience of the merchants, who, however, could never be prevailed on to take advantage of them, but held to their old haunt on the ' causey' near the site of the Crow. The statue of Charles II. in Parliament Square is referred to. The Exchange is well known. 3 A new instituted society, held weekly in the Thistle Lodge, where the grand concerns of the nation are debated by a set of juvenile Ciceros.--F. A debating society ...
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