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
mirth digestion meat
Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
summer kissing blue
The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.
revenge fate gold
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
wine needs red
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
ambition serious-business toys
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
soul age vehemence
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
life men mirth
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
life men buying
It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
strength lines given
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
friendship art
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
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!
running successful europe
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
green sin grey
I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
listening guardian mood
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.