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
dead footsteps foreign hath heart himself home man native soul wandering whose within
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand?
christmas half heart oft poor
A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.
heart hands stout
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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.
eye heart hands
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
heart humble character
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
spring heart heaven
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
broken-heart archer may
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
heart hands
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
heart world crystals
...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
eye heart looks
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
heart practice envy
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
love life heart
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
eye heart rocks
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.