Traditions of Edinburgh . s attire, as he tookhis daily walks on Princes Street, a long blue frock-coat, black,trousers, rather wide below, and sweeping over white stockingsand neat shoes—something like a web of white cambric roundhis neck, and a brown wig coming down to his eyebrows—hadlong established him as what is called a character. He hadrecently edited a book containing many stories of diablerie, andanother in which the original narrative of ultra-presbyterianchurch history had to bear a series of cavalier notes of the mostmocking character. He had a quaint biting wit, which peoplebore
Traditions of Edinburgh . s attire, as he tookhis daily walks on Princes Street, a long blue frock-coat, black,trousers, rather wide below, and sweeping over white stockingsand neat shoes—something like a web of white cambric roundhis neck, and a brown wig coming down to his eyebrows—hadlong established him as what is called a character. He hadrecently edited a book containing many stories of diablerie, andanother in which the original narrative of ultra-presbyterianchurch history had to bear a series of cavalier notes of the mostmocking character. He had a quaint biting wit, which peoplebore as they would a scratch from a provoked cat. Essentially,he was good-natured, and fond of merriment. He had con-siderable gifts of drawing, and one caricature portrait by him, ofQueen Elizabeth dancing, high and disposedly, before theScotch ambassadors, is the delight of everybody who has seenit. In jest upon his own peculiarity of voice, he formed anaddress-card for himself consisting simply of the followinganagram f. quasi dicitur C sharp. He was intensely aristocratic, and carednothing for the interests of the great multitude. He complainedthat one never heard of any gentlefolks committing crimes nowa days, as if that were a disadvantage to them or the case of a Lady Jane stabbing a perjured lover would havedelighted him. While the child of whim, Mr Sharpe was INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. VU generally believed to possess respectable talents by which, witha need for exerting them, he might have achieved ballad of the * Murder of Caerlaverock, in the Minstrelsy,is a masterly production; and the concluding verses haunt onelike a beautiful strain of music : To sweet Lincludens haly cellsFu dowie I II repair ;There Peace wd gentle Patience dwells,Nae deadly feuds are there. In tears I 11 wither ilka charm, Like draps o balefu yew ;And wail the beauty that coud harm A knight, sae brave and true. After what I had heard and read of Charles Sharpe, I calledupon
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