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Edinburgh Picturesque Notes

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Edinburgh Picturesque Notes

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is true, there is a garden between.  And although nothing could be more glaring by way of contrast, sometimes the opposition is more immediate; sometimes the thing lies in a nutshell, and there is not so much as a blade of grass between the rich and poor.  To look over the South Bridge and see the Cowgate below full of crying hawkers, is to view one rank of society from another in the twinkling of an eye.

One night I went along the Cowgate after every one was a-bed but the policeman, and stopped by hazard before a tall land.  The moon touched upon its chimneys, and shone blankly on the upper windows; there was no light anywhere in the great bulk of building; but as I stood there it seemed to me that I could hear quite a body of quiet sounds from the interior; doubtless there were many clocks ticking, and people snoring on their backs.  And thus, as I fancied, the dense life within made itself faintly audible in my ears, family after family contributing its quota to the general hum, and the whole pile beating in tune to its timepieces, like a great disordered heart.  Perhaps it was little more than a fancy altogether, but it was strangely impressive at the time, and gave me an imaginative measure of the disproportion between the quantity of living flesh and the trifling walls that separated and contained it.

There was nothing fanciful, at least, but every circumstance of terror and reality, in the fall of the land in the High Street.  The building had grown rotten to the core; the entry underneath had suddenly closed up so that the scavenger’s barrow could not pass; cracks and reverberations sounded through the house at night; the inhabitants of the huge old human bee-hive discussed their peril when they encountered on the stair; some had even left their dwellings in a panic of fear, and returned to them again in a fit of economy or self-respect; when, in the black hours of a Sunday morning, the whole s

Deacon Tom 07/11/2022
Fantastic book for me! Why because Edinburgh is, by far,my most favorite city. So, the words jumped off the pages. I loved it.

Others might struggle.
Faith 01/18/2020
Very good!
Mike 07/28/2019
How can you not enjoy these anecdotes and essays on Edinburgh by Robert Louis Stevenson? The ancient metropolis comes alive with the author's wanderings around his hometown circa late 1870s. Filled with stories of the famous and common folk of the age. Stevenson also marks the the change in the seas

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