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
character tragedy denmark
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
selfishness causes world
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
rome dies
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
men heaven given
True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
rain flower adversity
Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
morning fear love-is
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
ambition serious-business toys
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
doe information matter
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
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.
believe marine sailor
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
love rivers said
He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."
boys play
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
vanity sorrow arguing
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.