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“Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!”

Canto II, stanza 19. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.”

Walter Scott

Canto I, stanza 31. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto III, stanza 11.
Marmion (1808)

“Randolph, thy wreath has lost a rose.”

Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles

Canto VI, stanza 18.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)

“Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 3.

“There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 43, Malvoisin to Mont-Fitchet

“Spangling the wave with lights as vain
As pleasures in the vale of pain,
That dazzle as they fade.”

Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles

Canto I, stanza 23.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)

“The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.”

Walter Scott book The Talisman

The Talisman (1825), Introduction.

“The way was long, the wind was cold,
The Minstrel was infirm and old;
His withered cheek, and tresses gray,
Seemed to have known a better day.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Introduction
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

“Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto III, stanza 24.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

“Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.”

Walter Scott book Quentin Durward

Quentin Durward (1823), Ch. 4.

“She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh,
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 5).
Marmion (1808)

“There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century, or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of the 1745 — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons — the total eradication of the Jacobite party […]. […] This race has now almost entirely vanished from the land, and with it, doubtless, much absurd political prejudice — but also many living examples of singular ad disinterested attachment to the principles of loyalty which they received from their fathers, and of old Scottish faith, hospitality, worth, and honour. […] for the purpose of preserving some idea of the ancient manners of which I have witnessed the almost total extinction, I have embodied in imaginary scenes […].”

Walter Scott book Waverley

Source: Waverley (1814), Chapter LXXII, A postscript, which should have been a preface

“I was not always a man of woe.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto II, stanza 12.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

“But search the land of living men,
Where wilt thou find their like again?”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto I, introduction, st. 11.
Marmion (1808)

“November’s sky is chill and drear,
November’s leaf is red and sear.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto I, introduction, st. 1.
Marmion (1808)

“when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon.”

Walter Scott book The Heart of Midlothian

The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Ch. 4.

“Respect was mingled with surprise,
And the stern joy which warriors feel
In foeman worthy of their steel.”

Walter Scott

Canto V, stanza 10. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.”

Walter Scott book Peveril of the Peak

Peveril of the Peak, Chap. xlii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto I, introduction.
Marmion (1808)