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You shall invoke the Muse and certainly she ought to be propitious to an author who, in an apostatizing age, adheres with the faith of Abdiel to the ancient form of adoration. Then we must have a vision in which the Genius of Caledonia shall appear to Galgacus, and show him a procession of the real Scottish monarchs: and in the notes I will have a hit at Boethius No; I must not touch that topic, now that Sir Arthur is likely to have vexation enough besides but I'll annihilate Ossian, Macpherson, and Mac-Cribb."
"By my faith," said he, "I began to think you had changed your mind, and found the stupid people of Fairport so tiresome, that you judged them unworthy of your talents, and had taken French leave, as my old friend and brother-antiquary Mac-Cribb did, when he went off with one of my Syrian medals." "I hope, my good sir, I should have fallen under no such imputation."
"A mitre, my dear sir," continued he, as he led the way through a labyrinth of inconvenient and dark passages, and accompanied his disquisition with certain necessary cautions to his guest "A mitre, my dear sir, will suit our abbot as well as a bishop he was a mitred abbot, and at the very top of the roll take care of these three steps I know Mac-Cribb denies this, but it is as certain as that he took away my Antigonus, no leave asked you'll see the name of the Abbot of Trotcosey, Abbas Trottocosiensis, at the head of the rolls of parliament in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there is very little light here, and these cursed womankind always leave their tubs in the passage now take, care of the corner ascend twelve steps, and ye are safe!"
But that is nothing my lachrymatory, the main pillar of my theory on which I rested to show, in despite of the ignorant obstinacy of Mac-Cribb, that the Romans had passed the defiles of these mountains, and left behind them traces of their arts and arms, is gone annihilated reduced to such fragments as might be the shreds of a broken-flowerpot!
Well, what shall we set about? my Essay on Castrametation but I have that in petto for our afternoon cordial; or I will show you the controversy upon Ossian's Poems between Mac-Cribb and me.
"By my faith," said he, "I began to think you had changed your mind, and found the stupid people of Fairport so tiresome, that you judged them unworthy of your talents, and had taken French leave, as my old friend and brother-antiquary Mac-Cribb did, when he went off with one of my Syrian medals." "I hope, my good sir, I should have fallen under no such imputation."
Oldbuck then took up the subject of Ossian, Macpherson, and Mac-Cribb; but Lord Glenallan had never so much as heard of any of the three, so little conversant had he been with modern literature. The conversation was now in some danger of flagging, or of falling into the hands of Mr.
Oldbuck then took up the subject of Ossian, Macpherson, and Mac-Cribb; but Lord Glenallan had never so much as heard of any of the three, so little conversant had he been with modern literature. The conversation was now in some danger of flagging, or of falling into the hands of Mr.
Well, what shall we set about? my Essay on Castrametation but I have that in petto for our afternoon cordial; or I will show you the controversy upon Ossian's Poems between Mac-Cribb and me.
But that is nothing my lachrymatory, the main pillar of my theory on which I rested to show, in despite of the ignorant obstinacy of Mac-Cribb, that the Romans had passed the defiles of these mountains, and left behind them traces of their arts and arms, is gone annihilated reduced to such fragments as might be the shreds of a broken-flowerpot!
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