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in Parliament Square, is supposed to be under the stone shown in the
Engraving.) The Edinburgh Reviewers-Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Brougham,
KNOWS GRAVE
Dr. Thomas Brown, Francis Horner, and the rest,-are cultivating the
Muses ,on a little oatmeal, moistened by not a littre usquebaugh. Walter
Scott is getting up his Border MinstreZsy. Leyden is gulping down
languages like Behemoth rivers. Thomas Campbell is completing the
incubation of his PZeasures of Hope. Hector MacNeil is resting under
the little laurels of his WiZZ a d l e a n and Mary of CasfZecary. Dr. John
Jarnieson has come from Forfar to preside over an Anti-Burgher congregation
in Nicolson Street, and to issue his stupendous Dictwmzy of the
ScottzX hnpuge. Mrs. Grant of Laggan is publishing her Bters from fhe
Mozintatits. James Grahame is singing with sweet though rather sepulchral
notes his Sabbat/r and Birds of ScotZad. Mrs. Hamilton is brimful of her
exquisite novel, 23~C offagerso f GZenbumL; and Mrs. Brunton has secretly
prepared a surprise for the world, and her husband too, in her stirring and
animated Se(f-ControZ. In the Edinburgh pulpit, Dr. John Inglis, Dr. Brunton,
and other magnates, are propping up the Established Church, while in the
Relief body Struthers of College Street is gathering together such crowds as
have rarely been seen in Edinburgh before, and are not to be seen again till
the advent of Chalmers, and is, by his sermon on the battle of Trafalgar, to
electrify his audience as much as the news of the great victory had done,
while Alison and afterwards Morehead and Sandford are sustaining the credit of
the Episcopalian Church. But the period between the year 1815 and 1830 or
1835 may perhaps be called the culmination of Fdinburgh's intellectual- glory.
During that time was commenced ihe immortal series of the Waverley Novels,
in Iieu of, but a vast stride before, Scott's highly popular Poems. (The
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