Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . s ofGod. Middletons luitr)-, which opencil westward off thePotterrow, was associated with another of Burnssheroines. Miss Jean Lorimer, the flaxen-haired J •» -» OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Alison Square. Chloris of some of his finest lyrics, the daughter ofa prosperous farmer at a place called KemmisHall, on the banks of the Nith, and who, afterundergoing many vicissitudes, and having for atime had her portion with weeds and outwornfaces, was seized with consumption, and retired toan obscure abode in that narrow and gloomy
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . s ofGod. Middletons luitr)-, which opencil westward off thePotterrow, was associated with another of Burnssheroines. Miss Jean Lorimer, the flaxen-haired J •» -» OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Alison Square. Chloris of some of his finest lyrics, the daughter ofa prosperous farmer at a place called KemmisHall, on the banks of the Nith, and who, afterundergoing many vicissitudes, and having for atime had her portion with weeds and outwornfaces, was seized with consumption, and retired toan obscure abode in that narrow and gloomy lane. If Fortune smile, be not puffed up,And if it frown, be not dismayed ;For Providence govemeth all,Although the world s turned upside down. It was in Alison Square that Thomas Campbell,the poet, resided when writing the Pleasures ofHope. He occupied the second floor of a stair. i 1 .\ I KV. There slie lingered long in loneliness and suffering,supported by the charity of strangers, till she founda final home in Newington burying-ground. Alison Square, wliich lay farther south, andtlirough which a street has now been run, wasbuilt in the middle of the eighteenth century, upona venture, by Colin Alison, a joiner, who in afteriife was much reduced in circumstances by thespeculation. In his latter days he erected twoboards on tlitferent sides of his buildings, whereonhe had painted a globe in the act of falling, withthis inscription :— on the north side of the central archway, withwindows looking partly into the Potterrow, and])artly into Nicolson Street. The poem is said toha\e been written here in the night, his masterstemper being so irritable that it was then only hecould find peace for his task. Alison Square was completely transformed in1S76, when Marshall Street was constructed throughit. A Baptist church, in a most severe Lombardicstyle, stands on the n
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