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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Idiom
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 ;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Elderly lady on stage-coach - Elderly lady on stage-coach with daughter (Miss Bouncer) and friend
Dialect Features:Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling
Speakers: All , Elderly lady on stage-coach
The elderly lady, interrupting his reverie, said she supposed leaving Edinburgh put him down in the mouth; adding, it was natural for a young person to look glum on parting with his friends, but that when he knowed London he would set no store by Edinburgh and them boorish places .
" I myself were in Scotland in my younger days, and thought it a smartish place enough, but now, as I knows the world, I laughs at my own ignorance in ever liking so stupid, a low-lifed a place. The folks in Edinburgh are so dirty and mean, and the worst bredest persons , and speaks such an outlandish lingo-- they knows nothing , as my daughter says, of grammar, and them there sort of things . Then they has no amusements like Sadler's Wells , White-Conduit House, Mother Red Cap's, the Hopperas , and Masquelades , Bagnigge Wells, and the like of those. No, no, in London we knows life , that we does . You will think nothing of Edinburgh when you comes to be acquainted with London."
(Vol. 1,p. 220-223)" I myself were in Scotland in my younger days, and thought it a smartish place enough, but now, as I knows the world, I laughs at my own ignorance in ever liking so stupid, a low-lifed a place. The folks in Edinburgh are so dirty and mean, and the worst bredest persons , and speaks such an outlandish lingo-- they knows nothing , as my daughter says, of grammar, and them there sort of things . Then they has no amusements like Sadler's Wells , White-Conduit House, Mother Red Cap's, the Hopperas , and Masquelades , Bagnigge Wells, and the like of those. No, no, in London we knows life , that we does . You will think nothing of Edinburgh when you comes to be acquainted with London."
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Elderly lady on stage-coach - Elderly lady on stage-coach with daughter (Miss Bouncer) and friend
Dialect Features:Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling
Speakers: All , Elderly lady on stage-coach
The elderly lady, interrupting his reverie, said she supposed leaving Edinburgh put him down in the mouth; adding, it was natural for a young person to look glum on parting with his friends, but that when he knowed London he would set no store by Edinburgh and them boorish places .
" I myself were in Scotland in my younger days, and thought it a smartish place enough, but now, as I knows the world, I laughs at my own ignorance in ever liking so stupid, a low-lifed a place. The folks in Edinburgh are so dirty and mean, and the worst bredest persons , and speaks such an outlandish lingo-- they knows nothing , as my daughter says, of grammar, and them there sort of things . Then they has no amusements like Sadler's Wells , White-Conduit House, Mother Red Cap's, the Hopperas , and Masquelades , Bagnigge Wells, and the like of those. No, no, in London we knows life , that we does . You will think nothing of Edinburgh when you comes to be acquainted with London."
(Vol. 1,p. 220-223)" I myself were in Scotland in my younger days, and thought it a smartish place enough, but now, as I knows the world, I laughs at my own ignorance in ever liking so stupid, a low-lifed a place. The folks in Edinburgh are so dirty and mean, and the worst bredest persons , and speaks such an outlandish lingo-- they knows nothing , as my daughter says, of grammar, and them there sort of things . Then they has no amusements like Sadler's Wells , White-Conduit House, Mother Red Cap's, the Hopperas , and Masquelades , Bagnigge Wells, and the like of those. No, no, in London we knows life , that we does . You will think nothing of Edinburgh when you comes to be acquainted with London."
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Grammar
Extract #1 dialect features: Grammar
Speakers: All , The Captain
"So, Mr. Sawney, you are going to London, are you? yes, yes, I knows as how you Scotchmen likes to leave your own d--d country to feed upon us. It is better than your own famished mountains. Roast beef and pudding is better than oatmeal gruel. I wishes there was a law to prevent them lousy Scotch foreigners from over-running us as the locusts did the JEWS."
(Vol. 1,p. 235)
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
Dialect Speakers
2.
interlocutor
Dialect Features:Grammar, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
[...] the servant espying the Captain, ran up to him, took him very cordially by the hand, calling "Ned, how dost ? I hope hast secured the pleace ." Ned looked confused and made no answer. This his friend observing, and at the same time, espying the cockade, " what has't lost the pleace and art listed ?" Ned slunk away. "So then," said our hero to the fellow, "this person is not a Captain?" "A Captain," replied the other, laughing, "no, no, he was my fellow sarvant , and the 'Squire got him an exciseman's pleace at Northallerton; but I suppose he has been up to some of his old tricks, and got into a scrape, he looks so glum. He often used to get measter's clothes and go a courting , and, as he is a hell of a coward, often got licked. Measter missing several things of value, found him out to hae ta'en 'um , and so, Sir, he turned Ned off; but as he knows a thing or two of measter , the 'Squire gave him a good character and got him the place as I mentioned."
(Vol. 1,p. 237-238)
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Grammar, Orthographical Respelling
Speakers: All , Simon Suffolk
"Mr. President, and gentlemen of this here parish, now assembled, as I am a man as is well known in the parish, and as is gone through the different offices , and moreover, is a man of known property, I thinks as how my words is entitled to notice in this here westry . Then, gentlemen, let me tell you, that my werdict goes on the side with Dr. Wampus. Simon Suffolk, the cheesemonger, very well known in this parish, yes, and at the Bank too, mark that, Mr. President, S. Suffolk's name to a bit of a paper will give it credit, I will not say for how much, but ten times one is ten, let me tell you that, Mr. President, therefore, what I says oft to be minded; and, as I said before, Simon Suffolk wotes with Dr. Wampus . I see some gentlemen as near him sneer ; I know well enough what they mean, they thinks as how I side in this westry with Dr. Wampus because for why , I sarves his house in the cheesemongery line, but there Dr. Wampus and I is equal . My son is with the Doctor, as many here knows . We agreed that we should swop , that he should give Simmy education, and I should give him cheese; therefore, it is not to oblige the Doctor, but because it is in my own opinion, that I wote for this enlargement; and should there be more poor taken in, I trust the honourable the church-wardens, and the honourable the overseers, will continue to employ their brother and friends, Simon Suffolk, as before."
(Vol. 2,p. 14-15)
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Extract #1 dialect features: Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
"I," said one, "have the good fortune to be employed by the very highest connections. Mr. Deputy Dripping has often took me with him in his own shay , and recommends to me all the young men as he can , and them are not a little . Indeed, every one allows as how m y manners of larning the boys, both writing and accompts, is equal to any that has ever been invented; but what I most values myself upon, and thinks myself most completest in, is grammar. The Deputy, his friend the Alderman, and Sir John, often comes and eats their mutton with me . Although the Alderman and I be such good friends , we dont have the same opinion. He is all for the funds, I were always for mortgages ."
(Vol. 2,p. 22-23)
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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Extract #1 dialect features: Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Speakers: All , The preacher
"Oh, my beloved bretheren," he said, in a true Caledonian accent , "what a blessed doctrine it is that we are not to be clothed, yea, I say unto you, clothed in filthy nasty rags of our ain righteousness, but the splendid robs of Christ. It dis na signify how great sinners you ha been, or are, provided you do but believe . Do na be loosing your time in laabouring aifter morality and virtue, and sic haithenish things, seek for grace, seek for it, and not only speunefus but ladlefus , not only ladlefus but kettlefus . The grace of God is irresistible when ainsce you have had the effectual calling, you ay persaivere in the parts of grace. I noo proceed to expound to you in our chief doctrines of the persaivairance of the Sants .
" Dinna understand that the Sants are to persaivere in any particular kinds of works, only in faith. As to works, the Sants ken better than to value themselves on them; Satan often buffets the ailect , tempting them to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life; as to the lust of the flesh, I wonna say that the Sants dinna indulge in them as much as other folks , but then what dis it signify what they do with their impure bodies, so that they keep the sowls pure from unbelif; but as the backslidings of the Sants are a stumbling block to the wicked, I coonsel all that ken themselves to be of the ailect , to keep among their ain number. Why should not the lambs of God play together ?"
(Vol. 2,p. 64-65)" Dinna understand that the Sants are to persaivere in any particular kinds of works, only in faith. As to works, the Sants ken better than to value themselves on them; Satan often buffets the ailect , tempting them to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life; as to the lust of the flesh, I wonna say that the Sants dinna indulge in them as much as other folks , but then what dis it signify what they do with their impure bodies, so that they keep the sowls pure from unbelif; but as the backslidings of the Sants are a stumbling block to the wicked, I coonsel all that ken themselves to be of the ailect , to keep among their ain number. Why should not the lambs of God play together ?"
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Carver, Mrs (1800)
Courtship; Epistolary; Gothic; Inheritance / Identity; Castle (Arkeley Castle); country houses;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Idiom, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Grammar, Idiom, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
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;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Idiom, Orthographical Contraction
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)