And my father!-oh, my father! evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth!
Walter ScottWe are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon
Walter ScottTags: adversity facing-problems
Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the feet of the horses. The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snowflakes. All that was beautiful in the martial array had disappeared, and what was now visibke was only calculated to awaken terror or compassion.
Walter ScottTags: description battle
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
Walter ScottTags: death encouragement battle defeat glory-in-death
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
Walter ScottThou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
Walter ScottThe abstract idea of a spirit certainly implies that it has neither substance, form, shape, voice, or anything which can render its presence visible or sensible to human faculties.
Walter ScottTo all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.
Walter ScottI envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
Walter ScottEach age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
Tags: new-year cheer festivities
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