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“War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.”

Walter Scott book Old Mortality

Old Mortality, Volume II (1816), Chapter XI.

“But woe awaits a country when
She sees the tears of bearded men.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto V, stanza 16.
Marmion (1808)

“Rouse the lion from his lair.”

Walter Scott book The Talisman

The Talisman (1825), Heading, Ch. 6.

“Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.”

Walter Scott book Redgauntlet

Redgauntlet, Vol. II (1824), Ch. 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=ixkGAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Tell+that+to+the+marines+the+sailors+won't+believe+it%22&pg=PA326#v=onepage.

“The stag at eve had drunk his fill,
Where danced the moon on Monan's rill,
And deep his midnight lair had made
In lone Glenartney's hazel shade.”

Walter Scott

Canto I, stanza 1. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“Within that awful volume lies
The mystery, of mysteries!”

Walter Scott book The Monastery

Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.

“Where, where was Roderick then!
One blast upon his bugle-horn
Were worth a thousand men.”

Walter Scott

Canto VI, stanza 18. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.”

Walter Scott Marmion

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

“When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,
Out of the land of bondage came,
Her fathers' God before her mov'd,
An awful guide in smoke and flame.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe, Chap. xxxix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Steady of heart, and stout of hand.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto I, stanza 21.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

“There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.”

Walter Scott book Chronicles of the Canongate

Chronicles of the Canongate (1828), Second Series, Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=lo8nAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22There+is+a+vulgar+incredulity+which+in+historical+matters+as+well+as+in+those+of+religion+finds+it+easier+to+doubt+than+to+examine%22&amp;pg=PA19#v=onepage

“Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 1).
Marmion (1808)

“[…] a stone rolled down hill by an idle truant boy […]. Even such is the course of a narrative like that which you are perusing. The earlier events are studiously dwelt upon, that you, kind reader, may be introduced to the character rather by narrative, than by the duller mdium of direct description; but when the story drwas near its close, we hurry over the circumstances, however important, which your imagination must hvae forestalled, and leave you to suppose those things which it would be abusing your patience to relate at length.”

Walter Scott book Waverley

Source: Waverley (1814), Chapter LXX

“Along thy wild and willow'd shore.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto IV, stanza 1.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

“And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace
A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace
Of finer form or lovelier face.”

Walter Scott

Canto I, stanza 18. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“Come as the winds come, when
Forests are rended,
Come as the waves come, when
Navies are stranded.”

Walter Scott

Pibroch of Donald Dhu (1816), St. 4.

“Her haughtiness and habit of domination was, therefore, a fictitious character, induced over that which was natural to her, and it deserted her when her eyes were opened to the extent of her own danger, as well as that of her lover and her guardian; and when she found her will, the slightest expression of which was wont to command respect and attention, now placed in opposition to that of a man of a strong, fierce, and determined mind, who possessed the advantage over her, and was resolved to use it, she quailed before him.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 23.

“The Baron of Bradwardine being asked what he thought of these recruits, […] answered drily, 'that he could not but have an excellent opinion of them, since they resembled precisely the followers who attached themselves to the good King David at the cave of Adullam, vidilicet, every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, which the Vulgate renders bitter of soul;”

Walter Scott book Waverley

Source: Waverley (1814), Chapter LVII

“If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto II, stanza 1.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

“Some feelings are to mortals given
With less of earth in them than heaven;
And if there be a human tear
From passion's dross refined and clear,
A tear so limpid and so meek
It would not stain an angel's cheek,
'Tis that which pious fathers shed
Upon a duteous daughter's head!”

Walter Scott

Canto II, stanza 22. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)