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And the stern joy which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.
Lady of the Lake (1810)
Revenge—the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell!
The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
And let our barks across the pathless flood
Hold different courses.
We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
Marmion (1808)
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!
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
And children know,
Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
Lady of the Lake (1810)
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 (1813)
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 (1815)
Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
Rokeby (1813)
War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
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 (1823)
That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.
Marmion (1808)
Look to a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.
Redgauntlet (1824)
Call it not vain;—they do not err,
Who say, that when the Poet dies,
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
In man's most dark extremity
Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
My dear, be a good man—be virtuous—be religious—be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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!
The Talisman (1825)