Sir Walter Scott, 1. Baronet FRSE war ein schottischer Dichter, Schriftsteller, Verleger und Literaturkritiker. Er war einer der – nicht nur in Europa – meistgelesenen Autoren seiner Zeit und gilt traditionell als Begründer des Geschichtsromans. Viele seiner historischen Romane sind Klassiker geworden und haben als Vorlage für zahlreiche Schauspiele, Opern und Filme gedient. Wikipedia
“A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.”
Canto I, stanza 18.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Quelle: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 29, Ivanhoe explains to Rebecca the virtues of chivalry.
“O fading honours of the dead!
O high ambition, lowly laid!”
Canto II, stanza 10.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“In man's most dark extremity
Oft succour dawns from Heaven.”
Canto I, stanza 20.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
To a Lock of Hair http://www.bartleby.com/106/105.html.
“Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.”
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Ch. 3 - Lucy Ashton's Song.
“I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.”
Canto II, stanza 22.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“No pale gradations quench his ray,
No twilight dews his wrath allay.”
Canto VI, stanza 21.
Rokeby (1813)
“Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!”
Canto II, stanza 19.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Canto I, stanza 31.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.”
Canto III, stanza 11.
Marmion (1808)
“Randolph, thy wreath has lost a rose.”
Canto VI, stanza 18.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
“Spangling the wave with lights as vain
As pleasures in the vale of pain,
That dazzle as they fade.”
Canto I, stanza 23.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
“Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.”
Canto III, stanza 24.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.”
Quentin Durward (1823), Ch. 4.
Quelle: Waverley (1814), Chapter LXXII, A postscript, which should have been a preface
“I was not always a man of woe.”
Canto II, stanza 12.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“But search the land of living men,
Where wilt thou find their like again?”
Canto I, introduction, st. 11.
Marmion (1808)
“November’s sky is chill and drear,
November’s leaf is red and sear.”
Canto I, introduction, st. 1.
Marmion (1808)
Canto V, stanza 10.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Peveril of the Peak, Chap. xlii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.”
Canto I, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
