Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . rs, withoutEating anything whatever, &c. By James Graham, London,1793. FRANCIS GROSE, ESQ., Antiquary. The Print of the celebrated antiquary, Captain Grose, A fine fat fodgel wiglit, of stature short, but genius bright, represents him in the act of copying an inscription from an ancientruin, and was done during his visit to Edinburgh in 1789. He was exceedingly corpulent, and used to rally himself with thegreatest good humour on the singular rotundity of his figure. Thefollowing epigram, written in a mome
Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . rs, withoutEating anything whatever, &c. By James Graham, London,1793. FRANCIS GROSE, ESQ., Antiquary. The Print of the celebrated antiquary, Captain Grose, A fine fat fodgel wiglit, of stature short, but genius bright, represents him in the act of copying an inscription from an ancientruin, and was done during his visit to Edinburgh in 1789. He was exceedingly corpulent, and used to rally himself with thegreatest good humour on the singular rotundity of his figure. Thefollowing epigram, written in a moment of festivity, by the celebratedRobert Burns, the Ayrshire bard, was so much relished by Grose, thathe made it serve as an excuse for prolonging the convivial occasionthat gave it birth to a very late hour:— The Devil got notice that Grose was whip ! at the summons, old Satan came flying;But when he approachd where poor Francis lay moaning,And saw each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning, Astonished confounded, cries Satan, , Id want him, ere take such a
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