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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
2.
interlocutor
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Idiom
"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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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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Bisset, Robert (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Satirical; Highlands of Scotland; England ;
Dialect Speakers
1.
1800:18:narrator
Dialect Features:Orthographical Respelling
Extract #1 dialect features: Orthographical Respelling
Speakers: All , 1800:18:narrator
The young ladies who were entrusted to the care and tuition of Miss Bouncer, were generally the daughters of mechanics, and the inferior classes of tradesmen, who at the instigation of their wives , were eagerly desirous that their daughters should be properly initiated in the principles of gentility and peliteness .
(Vol. 2,p. 37)
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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.
1800:18:narrator
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
Speakers: All , 1800:18:narrator
[...]there he found Mrs. Advance, who received him with very great cordiality, although, on recollection, she said she was excessive angry with him, for being engaged the preceding Wednesday [...] The lady herself possessed that species, or, rather, quality, of understanding which is usually denominated shrewdness . Although she often made herself ridiculous by an attempted assumption of the manners of high life, yet, amidst the foolish vanity that produced it, her conversation was frequently agreeable, and often even intelligent, but although Mrs. Advance had a sharp understanding, her manners and dialect were those that marked her education to have been among the lower orders of the inhabitants of London, or the neighbourhood, her language was of that sort which ordinarily distinguishes cockneys . Her early years had been spent in that sort of society which tended to make its disciplines at once vulgar and petulant; at a later period she had been raised to a higher situation, but, although she was not without some appearance of the deportment belonging to her recent condition, still the cloven foot never failed to appear; there was a flowering of fashion upon a VERY BROAD ground-work of vulgarity .
(Vol. 80-81,p. 2)