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jembloomfield: Sorting out some handouts for a seminar on (Capt.) Alexander Montgomerie, and reminded that absolutely no-one does it like the Older Scots poets. Utterly banging stuff.
WBC_Libraries: Read of the Day
The current issue of ‘Scottish Field’ magazine has a feature on Orkney and Shetland, an interview with Colin Montgomerie, and an article on Alexander Graham Bell. Read it on Pressreader (
Val_Bold: 'Some sweetly has the honey socht,
Whill they were cloggit sore;
Some willingly the wax has wrocht,
To keep it up in store'
(Alexander Montgomerie, 'The Cherrie and the Slae')
OlympiaAuctions: A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF 18 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK OVER-AND-UNDER DOUBLE TRIGGER HOLSTER PISTOLS MADE FOR ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE, TENTH EARL OF EGLINTON (1723-1769) BY GRIFFIN, BOND STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1750 sold earlier for £18,000.
SeawrightDaniel: Scots Jacobean master poet, Alexander Montgomerie has turned up in to lead the company in a joyful chorus of Dunbar's "Timor mortis conturbat me!"
charliehtweets: A Ukrainian man has been arrested for attempting to sink the €7m yacht owned by his boss - Russian arms tycoon Alexander Mijeev. He opened valves in the engine room and compartment - then told the crew to abandon ship. Hauled in front of a judge, he said "I'd do it again".
ashdouglasscot: Yesterday's second-hand bookshop find. Alexander Montgomerie = the Renaissance chiel to whom academics like to attribute the anonymous, female-authored poems of the Maitland Quarto.
(Also available in this "Scottish Writers Series" are six other books *about men* and *by men*.)
feludamitter: ... is quoted. Again a trivial detail.
4. Professor Wrangler Paranjpe's speech quoted.
5. After meeting Agamya Guru, Savarkar's feelings told.
6. Agamya Guru's imprisonment
7. Alexander Montgomerie's confidential report is quoted, that Savarkar has become a goo orator
ashdouglasscot: Court poet Alexander Montgomerie, also writing of Maitland's translations of James' Scots poetry into Latin, says, wonderfully alliteratively:
"maks maikles Maitland" -
ie that [Chancellor John] Maitland makes it matchless/peerless/incomparable (maikles).
jembloomfield: I can't quite justify making Dunbar the set text for the week, but I think Alexander Montgomerie's poetry should be good fun - we've always had it as a special add-on for one week, and never covered it properly
rattlecans: This wiki sentence is crackin me right up
"...the 67-year-old widower Alexander Montgomerie Crawfurd (29 August 1828 – 31 May 1914), a Church of Scotland minister and family friend....but he became increasingly radical"
"but he became increasingly radical"
lololol
TheseDaysKids: You kids these days and your Falaisia, and your Alexander Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton
ScotTextSoc: Today from Alexander Montgomerie's Cherrie and Slae: for the rest of the poem see here:
ScotTextSoc: Today a poem from the 'Miscellaneous' section of the older edition of Alexander Montgomerie. See here for context:
SeawrightDaniel: Post tweet reflection. Areas to work on:
1. Timing - the meme had passed its peak.
2. I think I got the meme slightly wrong - check next time.
3. Is Sir David Lindsay the most meme friendly 16th Scots writer? Consider Alexander Montgomerie next time.
1111truth777: But since you think't an easy thing
To mount above the moon,
Of your own fiddle take a spring
And dance when you have done.
-Alexander Montgomerie
ScotTextSoc: Since the sun is being elusive here, I thought we might all enjoy the first stanza of Alexander Montgomerie's 'Solsequium'. If you'd like to finish the sentence, see here:
SeawrightDaniel: The genealogy websites say great uncle, though Alexander was only 10 years Hugh's senior. The Montgomery manuscripts say uncle, but according to genealogy sites this is a mix up with another Alexander Montgomerie (a progenitor of the Letterkenny, Donegal Montgomerys).
ScotTextSoc: Alexander Montgomerie today, preserved in the Laing MS. See here for the rest of the edn:
ScotTextSoc: For today, the first verse of the Song of Simeon in the Mindes Melodie, a collection attributed to Alexander Montgomerie in Cranstoun's 19th C edn. For the rest of the poem, see here:
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Is interesting reading!
migrhodes: Obituary | Robert Alexander Montgomerie of Southannan, 81 | Peerage News
alexwickham: EXCLUSIVE: A senior Boris Johnson aide has said the UK will forge a “special relationship” with Viktor Orban's govt in Hungary after Brexit
Video and quotes from Tim Montgomerie's incendiary speech at a right-wing think tank in Budapest last month here >
IanDunt: Hungary is a nationalist authoritarian state which has almost eradicated the independent press and made fair elections near-impossible. Tim Montgomerie says it exhibits "interesting early thinking on the limits of liberalism"
DavidGrayless: James Stewart (c. 1699 – 27 April 1768) was a Scottish soldier and politician. He was the second son of James Stewart, 5th Earl of Galloway and his wife Lady Catherine Montgomerie, daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton. He was educated at Eton.
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theclubatcw: The wait is over...Jason Alexander is back today with a new episode of The Pros Show! In this episode, Jason has a hard-hitting interview with World Golf Hall of Famer, Colin Montgomerie and recaps the Spring Tournament Season.
WikiHateBot: i hate Alexander Montgomerie
