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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
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" An' please your honour, there is na a man in the hale army mair milder than yourself , and de'll a stronger man, or a better feighter there is in it, na in our ain old forty second itsell , tho' mony a clever fallow there is in it; however, sin your honour will hae'd sae , I'll teach the lawdie the gude braid sword. Charlie Macavig and I very after taaks a bout at it, that gars us mind auld long syne , when we followed your honour up the heights of Abrahaam. --Ah, these were bra' times. By G-d , gin that brave boy live to man's estate, he'll be as stout a tall well-bigget a man as your honour's sell ."
(Vol. 1,p. 68)
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
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interlocutor
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"The next day, though he was walking with his own mother, the Duchess, he shook hands with me, and said to her Grace, 'this has been an old soldier of our regiment--' and her Grace, ( Oh , she's a bonny woman,) smiled and asked me, how long I had been in the service. She had twa unco' pretty lasses wi' her, as like hersel as they could glowr ; and I said, ' Please your Grace, you ha' been young married to ha' sic a son and sic daughters;' and she said she had twa other daughters older, that are married, just as well fared as these are. There was another very likely lassie that Neil Gow shewed me about the same time, a daughter of the Duke of Argyle's."
(Vol. 2,p. 248-249)
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
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The barber answered, " I never neglects business for any thing, but who, as I tells them at our club , can be unconcerned at the present kerises and hermgency , we is now no longer barberas like our hancestors , we now knows what's what; we read the Gazetteer, and the Morning Post, and Morning Chronicle, and Dr. Prices' Sarments ; not as we of our club sets great store by sarments , unless they be of the right sort , against Bishops and Kings, and for liberty and equality, and Dr. Priestley's paper-books ,* he is the man of the true light. He says as how there is a gun-powder plot that will blow up the church."
*Meaning, perhaps, pamphlets.
"What! Mr Barber, I'm afraid you are not orthodox," said our hero.
" Horthodok ! no, d--n me , no; I'm one of your Tarins as I tells our Mr. Stave, the clark."
"Tarians! who are they?" says Douglas.
" I can't say as how I knows much who they be, but Dr. Priestley is all for them; and I swears by him , I be one of your haretics , by jingo I be -- I be none of your ignorants that minds parsons, and all that those d--d stuff . I be one of your losophers ."
(Vol. 2,p. 110-111)*Meaning, perhaps, pamphlets.
"What! Mr Barber, I'm afraid you are not orthodox," said our hero.
" Horthodok ! no, d--n me , no; I'm one of your Tarins as I tells our Mr. Stave, the clark."
"Tarians! who are they?" says Douglas.
" I can't say as how I knows much who they be, but Dr. Priestley is all for them; and I swears by him , I be one of your haretics , by jingo I be -- I be none of your ignorants that minds parsons, and all that those d--d stuff . I be one of your losophers ."
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
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When Charles made his appearance, Mr. Dip, having viewed his vigorous and athletic figure, said to his spouse, " Egad , spouse, I doubt we are in the wrong box , Theodore has been plugging a little, for his is, certainly, not a match for two of that gentleman, nor indeed for one, if we may trust to appearances."
"You talk like a fool," said the lady, "Theodore never told a falsehood in his life." --( "That's a good one," said the 'Squire, aside, to Dr. Vampus.)-- "Theodore is a good lad, and a pretty lad, but I myself has found that he often draws a long bow ; but, for your life, don't mention I said so." Douglas stated the affair very briefly, but so little to the satisfaction of Madam Dip, that, in a great passion, she said "you oft to be ashamed of yourself for telling such monstratious fibs. I understands how you be the son of a person of consekence ; you act very misbecoming of yourself for to go to take the pearte of the refuge and scum of hearth against such a person of fashion as our Theodore."
"Yes, as spouse says," said 'Squire Dip, "them riff-raff , tag-rag and bob-tail , wulgar wretches are not to be put into compalison with gentlemen of fortunes; our Theodore might have been married to Madam Dutchsquab, that brought a mint of money from the nigers in the Vest Indies. She has is since that my old friend Jacky Dulman has since got."
"I vish ," said the lady, "that I knowed vear to light on that Wilson, I should have a varrant out against him, and let him see how he can stand to go to the law with people of hopulence ."
(Vol. 2,p. 131-133)"You talk like a fool," said the lady, "Theodore never told a falsehood in his life." --( "That's a good one," said the 'Squire, aside, to Dr. Vampus.)-- "Theodore is a good lad, and a pretty lad, but I myself has found that he often draws a long bow ; but, for your life, don't mention I said so." Douglas stated the affair very briefly, but so little to the satisfaction of Madam Dip, that, in a great passion, she said "you oft to be ashamed of yourself for telling such monstratious fibs. I understands how you be the son of a person of consekence ; you act very misbecoming of yourself for to go to take the pearte of the refuge and scum of hearth against such a person of fashion as our Theodore."
"Yes, as spouse says," said 'Squire Dip, "them riff-raff , tag-rag and bob-tail , wulgar wretches are not to be put into compalison with gentlemen of fortunes; our Theodore might have been married to Madam Dutchsquab, that brought a mint of money from the nigers in the Vest Indies. She has is since that my old friend Jacky Dulman has since got."
"I vish ," said the lady, "that I knowed vear to light on that Wilson, I should have a varrant out against him, and let him see how he can stand to go to the law with people of hopulence ."
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
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interlocutor
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Mr Manage was one morning visited by his worthy acquaintance, Mr. Swearwell. "Aye, my old blade, I am rejoiced to see your chubby phiz again. Well, any more confirmation of the Nabob's exit? Any more accounts from Madagascar?"
"None, but what arrived in the same ship with those you received."
"Oh, there can be no doubt of it. Old Rhode, Mrs. Douglas, and I, are just come to town in a post-shay . We slept last night at that place where the mills are, upon which a song is made."
"Baldock, most likely," said Mr. Manage.
"Aye, the same. Arrah , by Jasus , the chamber-maid there is one of the finest, tightest , little girls I have seen, since I left the Curraugh of Kildare. Old Rhode was casting a sheep's eye at her, for he is a wicked old dog; you will like him hugely, he is quite an old reprobate. I must bring him to dine with you--he has such a set of songs and stories as will make you split your sides with laughing. Do you dine at home to-day?"
(Vol. 3,p. 195-197)"None, but what arrived in the same ship with those you received."
"Oh, there can be no doubt of it. Old Rhode, Mrs. Douglas, and I, are just come to town in a post-shay . We slept last night at that place where the mills are, upon which a song is made."
"Baldock, most likely," said Mr. Manage.
"Aye, the same. Arrah , by Jasus , the chamber-maid there is one of the finest, tightest , little girls I have seen, since I left the Curraugh of Kildare. Old Rhode was casting a sheep's eye at her, for he is a wicked old dog; you will like him hugely, he is quite an old reprobate. I must bring him to dine with you--he has such a set of songs and stories as will make you split your sides with laughing. Do you dine at home to-day?"
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
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"Oh, yes," said Mrs. Dip, "I think I knows what breeding is, and I'll give an incense of his'n . There was a parson there, in the same house with his wife, and what do you think? Although I heard for certain that he had not more than two hundred a year, clear in the world--although the 'Squire, God be praised, could produce a guinea for every half-crown he had, yet Mr. Manage preferred the company of the parson and his wife to 'Squire Dip and me. There was breeding for you; there was minding people of extinction . I never in my born days received such rudeness, except once. However, I always, as I says , computeth as to people's ignorance. There is no getting at all people to have the breeding they oft to have."
(Vol. 3,p. 203)
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
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Speakers: All , Mr. Rhodomontade
" To be sure ," (he would say,) "Laird, you are a little of a rake, like my old friend Sandwich, but all clever fellows is the same . Damme , old Jack wears well, many a hard bout we two have had. I once gained a rump and dozen, by drinking four bottles of port, after I had, at glass for glass, laid him under the table. Oh, G-d! we shall never see such days as we have seen. He and I, cleared a dozen of bullies, who had assaulted us in mother Douglas's. My good friend Harry Fielding, I remember, he, you know, wrote Don Quixote , was justice at Bow Street, and read us a severe lecture. Billy Murray, I remember, bailed us, he that is now Lord Mansfield."
" By G- d, Laird, old Fielding would have delighted you, his humour and your's, would have hit to a T ."
(Vol. 1,p. 139-140)" By G- d, Laird, old Fielding would have delighted you, his humour and your's, would have hit to a T ."
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
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"You were at Malplaquet," said Longhead.
"Yes I was, do you doubt it?"
"By no means, after your asserting it but I am surprized at it, as it was bought near twenty years before you were born."
"Then it was some other. I was at so many, I often confound one with another. My friend, Harry Fielding too, did not know a single word of Latin or Greek, and where would you find a cleverer fellow? I knew him intimately. He and I were hand and glove . He read his Roderic Random to me before he published it-- D--n my heart , what are you Homer and Pindus, and Europrius, and so forth, to make a clever man, compared with travelling, and knowing men and things?"
"I did not know," said Mr. Wiseman, "Fielding was ignorant of Greek and Latin; nor, indeed, that he had written Roderick Random."
(Vol. 1,p. 152-153)"Yes I was, do you doubt it?"
"By no means, after your asserting it but I am surprized at it, as it was bought near twenty years before you were born."
"Then it was some other. I was at so many, I often confound one with another. My friend, Harry Fielding too, did not know a single word of Latin or Greek, and where would you find a cleverer fellow? I knew him intimately. He and I were hand and glove . He read his Roderic Random to me before he published it-- D--n my heart , what are you Homer and Pindus, and Europrius, and so forth, to make a clever man, compared with travelling, and knowing men and things?"
"I did not know," said Mr. Wiseman, "Fielding was ignorant of Greek and Latin; nor, indeed, that he had written Roderick Random."
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Carver, Mrs (1800)
Courtship; Epistolary; Gothic; Inheritance / Identity; Castle (Arkeley Castle); country houses;
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To keep you therefore no longer in suspense, Lucy began by saying, (in a hesitating voice and a countenance strongly impressed with terror,) "Law, mame !, you look frightened;--sure you hav'n't seen any thing! O dear me, mame , this house is sartainly haunted. I have heard sitch noises as none but spirits could make; and as sure as I stands here alive, the t'other night, as I was a coming through the gallery where all the pictures be, I heard a noise, and as I turned my head, ( tho' I generally shuts my eyes if I comes that way,) law! I thought I should a died; for the great picture of the ould lady as fronts the door, and I always thinks looks at me, but now its eyes moved, and I saw them as plain, mame , as I now see your's move. Well -- I runs screaming back again, and just as I got to the great stairs I met Mary housemaid, and so she seeing me so frighted, we took fast hold of one another, and shut our eyes, and so we run downstairs; and when I told her what had made me so frightful, she was not at all surprised, for she said she had seen it more than once or twice; and when she told it in the kitchen, Mr. Harding, master's gentleman, said there was no occasion to be afeard , for sitch things did happen now a-days; and said as how he had read a book called The Castle of Trantum, where the pictures walked out of their frames, and sighed; and I think he said, sometimes spoke! Lord bless us! it makes me shake now but to think on't. However, I have never ventured through the gallery since; but I believe it is the same in every place in the house; for the dairy-maid, who is up sometimes before 'tis light, says she has seen lights and and faces a looking through the windows in the lower buildings, and heard sitch noises, as she's sure the ghosts must be playing strange gambols .
(Vol. 1,p. 68-71)
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Carver, Mrs (1800)
Courtship; Epistolary; Gothic; Inheritance / Identity; Castle (Arkeley Castle); country houses;
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Speakers: All , Arthur Bennet
I asked Arthur Bennet, in a careless manner, if the castle had not been always famous for strange and unaccountable noises. "Yes, good madam," he replied, "that it has; but I never minded the nonsense that was talked. I have lived in it nine-and-forty years come next Michaelmas, and, thank God, have never see'd anything uglier than myself. As to noises, 'tis impossible that in such a great rambling place, but that there must be noises. Why I reckon there be rats as old as I am, or nearly; and then the wind makes its way in all the long passages and staicases enough to startle a bold man. But I hope, my dear lady, you have met with nothing to fright or terrify you; and I am sorry you did not go to London with his honour: such a sweet couple should never be parted. My old master and mistress never were divided for fifty years, and only then by death. But fashions be changed since then, and they say as nobody lives in that sort of way now a-days,--the more's the pity; for when two people loves one another , they should always be together."
(Vol. 1,p. 74-75)