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Walter Scott Biography

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

Country, Hands, Land, Mortal, Strand, Thy

Hail to the chief in triumph advances.

Advances, Chief, Hail, Triumph, War

Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

Joy, Mingled, Respect, Warrior, Worthy

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Maidens, Outruns, Silence, Thy, Tongue

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

Food, Mellow, Nuts, Rind

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Charm, Charms, Mystery, Womanhood

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

Dog, Short Life, Loss, Acquaintance, Compassion, Short

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.

Eyes, Life, Love, Lovers, Stars

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Fine Words, Parsnips, Proverb, Southern, Words

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Adversity, Flower, Like, Period, Rain, Rose

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

Clouds, Gay, Praise, Think, Thinking, Tints

I was not always a man of woe.

Man, Men, Woe

The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.

Kissing, Lakes, Maiden, Pleased, Reflected, Summer

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Age, Boys, Thought, Truth, Youth

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Destiny, Education, Learn, Life, Positive, Thing

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

Beautiful, Imagination, Merit, Qualities, Rose

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

Cooked, Hell, Mouths, Revenge, Sweetest

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

Fight, Fighting, Scotsman, Way, World

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

Dear, Dear Me, Memories, Memory, Thoughts

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

Flourisheth, Herb, Herbs, Like, Trampled

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