Reminiscences of "auld Ayr." ...J. Stillie, 1864 - 102 pages |
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Page 14 - That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.
Page 14 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 18 - On Sabbath, in time of divine worship, men of some character, Mr. Charles Cochran, James Dalrymple, clerk, and many others, to the number of seven or eight, who, instead of worshipping with other Christiana, meet in a tavern and read Woolston's Discourses on Miracles^ and ridicule all religion.
Page 16 - He used to cover bis head with a head-piece before he went to separate these bloody enemies, but would never use a sword, that they might see he came for peace, and not for war ; and so by little and little he made the town a peaceable habitation.
Page 19 - Prisoners within the Tolbuith dischargit from holding any feasting, treat, or banquet within the prison ; and that no persons above the number of one shall be allowed to dine or sup with any such prisoner.
Page 15 - Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...
Page 16 - Welsh made it his first undertaking to remove the bloody quarrellings, but he found it a very difficult work ; yet such was his earnestness to pursue his design, that many times he would rush betwixt two parties of men fighting, even in the midst of blood and wounds. He used to cover his head with a headpiece before...
Page 16 - Christian, and a great assistant of Mr. Welch. And when he had first taken up his residence in that town, the place was so divided into factions, and filled with bloody conflicts, a man could hardly walk the streets with safety ; wherefore Mr.
Page 10 - particularly within the house of Mrs. Tenant, innkeeper in Ayr, as well as in the house of Patrick Auld, weaver in Ayr, titter the following, or such like unworthy, base, reproachful, and wicked expressions, viz., that he, Dr. William Dalrymple, was as revengeful as hell, and as false as the devil ; and that he was a liar, or a damned liar : that he, the said John Murdoch, also called Mr. Dalrymple a hypocrite, or accused him of hypocrisy.
Page 30 - stout barber," so called from his corpulence.] Wee grocer Gibbf neist waddles up, Like some fat goosy-gander, Taks aff his hat, and in the pass Fa's owre young Alexander.§ horse, returned to Glasgow, and had the satisfaction of carrying away the palm of victory. He lived to a great age, and was much respected. * The heroine of Wilson's poem of "Watty and Meg.