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“"I'm no gaun to let naebody see the letter," sobbed the boy, "till I gie't to Mr. Lovel, for I am a faithfu' servant o' the office—if it werena for the powny."
"Very right, my little man," said Ochiltree, turning the reluctant pony's head towards Monkbarns; "but we'll guide him atween us." …
[They met Lovel on the way, ] and Davie, who insisted upon a literal execution of his commission by going on to Monkbarns, was with difficulty prevailed upon to surrender the packet to its proper owner, although he met him a mile nearer than the place he had been directed to. "But my minnie said, I maun be sure to get twenty shillings and five shillings for the postage, and ten shillings and sixpence for the express—there's the paper."
"Let me see—let me see," said Oldbuck, putting on his spectacles, and examining the crumpled copy of regulations to which Davie appealed. "Express, per man and horse, one day, not to exceed ten shillings and sixpence. One day? why, it's not an hour—Man and horse? why, 'tis a monkey on a starved cat!"”

Walter Scott book The Antiquary

Vol. I, Ch.15.
The Antiquary (1816), On the postal service

“Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.”

Walter Scott book Old Mortality

Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto II, introduction, st. 30.
Marmion (1808)

“The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.”

Walter Scott

Life of Napoleon (February, 1807).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

“Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.”

Walter Scott book The Talisman

The Talisman (1825), Ch. 24.

“Oh for a blast of that dread horn
On Fontarabian echoes borne!”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto VI, stanza 33.
Marmion (1808)

“Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather garlands there
Would grace a summer's queen.”

Walter Scott book Rokeby

Canto III, stanza 16.
Rokeby (1813)

“Pax vobiscum will answer all queries. If you go or come, eat or drink, bless or ban, Pax vobiscum carries you through it all. It is as useful to a friar as a broom-stick to a witch, or a wand to a conjuror.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 26, Wamba explaining to Cedric how to get away with impersonating a priest. Pax vobiscum means "peace be with you".

“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 2).
Marmion (1808)

“"What remains?" cried Ivanhoe; "Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name."”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 29, Ivanhoe to Rebecca, who questions the value of chivalry and has asked what remains for knights when death takes them.

“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”

Walter Scott book The Monastery

Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 25.

“If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.”

Walter Scott book Woodstock

Woodstock (1826), Ch. 28.

“Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!
Vain as the leaf upon the stream,
And fickle as a changeful dream;
Fantastic as a woman's mood,
And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.
Thou many-headed monster thing,
Oh who would wish to be thy king!”

Walter Scott

Canto V, stanza 30. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“And darest thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto VI, st. 14.
Marmion (1808)

“You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 44, Rebecca speaking to Rowena.

“Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!”

Walter Scott

Bridal of Triermain, canto i. Stanza 21.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A light on Marmion’s visage spread,
And fired his glazing eye:
With dying hand, above his head,
He shook the fragment of his blade,
And shouted "Victory!-
Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!"”

Walter Scott Marmion

Were the last words of Marmion.
Canto VI, st. 32.
Marmion (1808)

“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”

Walter Scott book The Monastery

Answer of the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck.
The Monastery (1820)