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«'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.»
«Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blest, deceiving, Mary, Mary I, mourn
«Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
cottage, lake, Scottish
«What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.»
«O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, aspen, brow, coy, hard to please, ministering, quivering, quivers, shade, The Brow, uncertain, variable, variables, wring
«Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
affection, chivalry, curb, curbed, curbing, curbs, empty, finds, grievance, grievances, higher power, lance, lances, lancing, liberty, maiden, name, nobility, nurse, oppressed, oppresses, oppressing, protection, protections, pure, staying power, sword, tyrant
«Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
deemed, festal, fittest
«Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
appalling, banquet, dreadful, forcibly, peculiarly, snatched, springtime
«I was not always a man of woe.»
«We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt»
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