Comic poems of the years 1685, and 1793; on rustic scenes in Scotland, and the times to which they refer: with notesbooksellers, 1817 - 178 pages |
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Page 91 - ... animated their people to rise and march to Edinburgh; and they came up marching on the head of their parishes with an unheard-of fury, praying and preaching all the way as they came. The marquis of Argyle and his party came and headed them, they being about six thousand. This was called the whiggamor's inroad; and ever after that, all that opposed the court came in contempt to be called whigs...
Page 90 - The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year : and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the north ; and, from a word, wliiggam, used in driving their horses, all that drove were called whiggmnores, and shorter, whiggs. Now in that year, after the news came down of Duke Hamilton's defeat...
Page 7 - Lady-wood edge, the wife of one of their brethren lying dead, and her child sucking her breast. Thence the town of Selkirk obtained, for their arms, a woman sitting upon a sarcophagus, holding a child in her arms; in the back-ground a wood ; and on the sarcophagus the arms of Scotland.
Page 105 - Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem Sen ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, ilia Contentus vivat, laudet diversa sequentes ? ' О fortunati mercatores Г gravis annis Miles ait, multo jam fractus membra labore.
Page 92 - The court party reproached their antagonists with their affinity to the fanatical conventiclers in Scotland, who were known by the name of Whigs : the country party found a resemblance between the courtiers and the popish banditti in Ireland, to whom the appellation of Tory was affixed. And after this manner, these foolish terms of reproach came into public and general use; and even at present seem not nearer their end than when they were first invented.
Page 91 - Whig and Tory, by which, and sometimes without any material difference, this island has been so long divided. The court party reproached their antagonists with their affinity to the fanatical conventiclers in Scotland, who were known by the name of Whigs ; the country party found a resemblance between the courtiers and the popish banditti in Ireland, to whom the...
Page 103 - The Laird of Halkshaw, absent himself; four of his men present, with three lances and swords, horsed ; in the parish of Drummelzier.
Page 103 - Logan, present, well horsed, with lance and sword ; and a horseman with nothing ; parish of Glenholm. William...
Page 6 - Here sacred pomp, and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and Hymeneal rite; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed: The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute and cithern's silver sound: Thro' the fair streets, the matrons in a row, Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show.
Page ix - Young Kingseat was a Tory trooper then Now Stobo stipend makes him Whig again.