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"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."
Rokeby. Canto v. Stanza 1.
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"No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay."
Rokeby. Canto vi. Stanza 21.
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"Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded."
Pibroch of Donald Dhu.
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"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."
Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxvii.
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"Bluid is thicker than water."
Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxviii.
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"It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives."
The Antiquary. Chap. xi.
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"When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame."
Ivanhoe. Chap. xxxix.
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"Sea of upturned faces."
Rob Roy. Chap. xx.
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"There 's a gude time coming."
Rob Roy. Chap. xxxii.
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"My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor."
Rob Roy. Chap. xxxiv.
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"Scared out of his seven senses."
Rob Roy. Chap. xxxiv.
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"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name."
Old Mortality. Chap. xxxiv.
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"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
Answer to the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck. The Monastery.
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"Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!"
The Monastery. Chap. xii.
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"And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn."
The Monastery. Chap. xii.
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"Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea. The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea."
Quentin Durward. Chap. iv.
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"Widowed wife and wedded maid."
The Betrothed. Chap. xv.
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"Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust."
The Betrothed. Chap. xx.
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"I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd."
The Betrothed. Chap. xxviii.
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"But with the morning cool reflection came."
Chronicles of the Canongate. Chap. iv.
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"What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?"
Woodstock. Chap. xxxvii.
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"The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out."
The Talisman. Introduction.
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"Rouse the lion from his lair."
The Talisman. Chap. vi.
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"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."
The Heart of Midlothian. Chap. viii.
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"Fat, fair, and forty."
St. Ronan's Well. Chap. vii.
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""Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time."
Peveril of the Peak. Chap. xlii.
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"Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers."
Life of Napoleon.
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"The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V."
Life of Napoleon. (February, 1807.)
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"There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed."
Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.
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"Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time."
Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.
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"To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents,--the tools to him that can handle them."
Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.
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"Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!"
Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.
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"The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others."
Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.
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"Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls."
Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.
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"It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time."
Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.
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"The glory dies not, and the grief is past."
Sonnet on the Death of Sir Walter Scott.
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