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Perhaps the good surgeon became the victim of that "one continued string of epigrammatic sarcasms," such as Mr. Colquhoun told Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Smollett used to play off on his companions, "for which no talents could compensate." Judging by Dr.
Thus early had the youthful patron of the drama blossomed into notoriety, and having also commenced attendance at the Roman Catholic Chapel he had now resolved to become a priest, though curiously enough he began this career by eloping, as we are assured by Ramsay of Ochtertyre, with a Roman Catholic actress.
I have been trying for a berth for William, but am not likely to be successful. Farewell. EDINBURGH, 20th Oct., 1787. SIR, I was spending a few days at Sir William Murray's, Ochtertyre, and did not get your obliging letter till to-day I came to town.
What a picture it must have been to see the party dragging Burns about, pointing out the best views, and then breathlessly waiting for a torrent of verse. The verses came afterwards, but they were addressed, not to the Ochils or the Devon, but to Peggy Chalmers. From Harvieston he went to Ochtertyre on the Teith to visit Mr.
'For this marriage, says Ramsay of Ochtertyre, 'their posterity paid dear, for to it was due, increased no doubt as it was through the inter-marriages in close degrees between various scions of the house, the insanity which is now recognised by all students of his writings in Boswell himself, and which made its appearance in the clearest way in the case of his second daughter.
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