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
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.
life men land
But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
happiness combination circumstances
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
life memories men
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
may waking darling
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
wrath heaven passing-away
That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
wind long way
The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.
dream kings blood
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
love war knights
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.
love lord stills
For Love will still be lord of all.
love war fairs
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
children land nurse
O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!
country heart boys
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.
dragons saint-george england
Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!