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
heart tears my-heart
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
blessed sleep night
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
silence tongue maidens
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
patriotic country-love men
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
horse men rooms
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
christmas wind woods
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
should-have soldier abuse
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
sorry literature staff
Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
happiness combination circumstances
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
flames torches brighter
A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
long storm frost
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
truth boys age
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
would-be answers moments
We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
greatness path virtue
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.