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"Alas! fair Rowena," returned De Bracy, "you are in presence of your captive, not your jailor; and it is from your fair eyes that De Bracy must receive that doom which you fondly expect from him."
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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With head upraised, and look intent,
And eye and ear attentive bent,
And locks flung back, and lips apart,
Like monument of Grecian art,
In listening mood, she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
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Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord;
That which molders hemp and steel,
Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
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Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.
The orange flower perfumes the bower,
The breeze is on the sea.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Ambition breaks through the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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So shall he strive, in changeful hue,
Field, feast, and combat, to renew,
And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,
And all the pomp of chivalry.
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The stubborn spear-men still made good
Their dark impenetrable wood,
Each stepping where his comrade stood,
The instant that he fell.
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He is gone on the mountain,
He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
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And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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'T is an old tale and often told;
But did my fate and wish agree,
Ne'er had been read, in story old,
Of maiden true betray'd for gold,
That loved, or was avenged, like me.
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Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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Were I my own man…I would refuse this offer (with all gratitude); but as I am situated, L.300 or L.400 a-year is not to be sneezed at.
On being offered the Laureateship
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I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
August 15, 1771
Died:
September 21, 1832
(aged 61)
Bio:
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America.
Known for:
Ivanhoe (1820)
Waverley (1814)
Rob Roy (1817)
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
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