Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSEwas a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 August 1771
honesty rags sterling
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
mother motherhood herds
I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
mother father pride
A mother's pride, a father's joy.
evil too-late midst
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
christian astrology philosopher
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
forgiveness morning repentance
But with morning cool repentance came.
thinking noble absurd
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
friendship art
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
strength lines given
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
life men buying
It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
fear mind noble
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
truth boys age
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
life men mirth
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
sleep tree jocks
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.