Last words, as quoted in John Gibson Lockhart Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. VII (1838), p. 294
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“When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto II, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
“Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto I, stanza 7.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Walter Scott buch Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward, Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”
Walter Scott buch The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Walter Scott buch The Monastery
Quelle: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
Walter Scott buch Waverley
Quelle: Waverley (1814), Chapter LIV
“It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.”
Walter Scott buch The Antiquary
Volume I, Ch. 11.
The Antiquary (1816)
Walter Scott buch The Antiquary
Vol. I, Ch.15.
The Antiquary (1816), On the postal service
Walter Scott buch Old Mortality
Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto II, introduction, st. 30.
Marmion (1808)
“The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.”
Life of Napoleon (February, 1807).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
“Oh for a blast of that dread horn
On Fontarabian echoes borne!”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto VI, stanza 33.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott buch Rokeby
Canto III, stanza 16.
Rokeby (1813)
Walter Scott buch Ivanhoe
Quelle: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 26, Wamba explaining to Cedric how to get away with impersonating a priest. Pax vobiscum means "peace be with you".
“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 2).
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott buch Ivanhoe
Quelle: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 29, Ivanhoe to Rebecca, who questions the value of chivalry and has asked what remains for knights when death takes them.
“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”
Walter Scott buch The Monastery
Quelle: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 25.
“If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.”
Walter Scott buch Woodstock
Woodstock (1826), Ch. 28.
“To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!”
Walter Scott Marmion
L'Envoy.
Marmion (1808)
Canto V, stanza 30. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“And darest thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto VI, st. 14.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott buch Ivanhoe
Quelle: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 44, Rebecca speaking to Rowena.
“Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!”
Bridal of Triermain, canto i. Stanza 21.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Walter Scott Marmion
Were the last words of Marmion.
Canto VI, st. 32.
Marmion (1808)
“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”
Walter Scott buch The Monastery
Answer of the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck.
The Monastery (1820)
“There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.”
Walter Scott buch A Legend of Montrose
A Legend of Montrose (1819), Ch. 3.
