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Walter Scott est un poète, écrivain et historien écossais né le 15 août 1771 à Édimbourg et mort le 21 septembre 1832 à Abbotsford.

Avocat de formation, amateur d'antiquités, il parcourt d'abord l'Écosse, à la recherche de son passé. Au tournant des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, il se lance dans la littérature, publiant des textes anciens ou appartenant à la tradition populaire ainsi que des poèmes de son cru, comme La Dame du lac. Puis, devant la gloire montante de Lord Byron, il se tourne vers le roman écossais , avant d'évoluer vers le roman historique, avec Ivanhoé et Quentin Durward .

C'est l'un des plus célèbres auteurs écossais avec David Hume de Godscroft, David Hume, Adam Smith, Robert Burns ou Robert Louis Stevenson. Il est également, avec Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley ou Keats, l'une des plus illustres figures du romantisme britannique. Il est aussi un des représentants du roman historique, il a contribué à forger une image romantique de l'Écosse et de son histoire. C'est à lui, notamment, que l'on doit le retour de l'usage du tartan et du kilt, dont le port avait été interdit par une loi du Parlement en 1746. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. août 1771 – 21. septembre 1832
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Walter Scott: Citations en anglais

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto III, stanza 2.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Contexte: In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

“Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.”

The Heart of Midlothian', Ch. 30 (1818).
Source: The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

Letter to J. G. Lockhart (c. 16 June 1830), in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. II (1936), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 652

“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto VI, st. 17.
Variante: Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
Source: Marmion (1808)

“The will to do, the soul to dare”

Canto I, stanza 21.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Contexte: On his bold visage middle age
Had slightly pressed its signet sage,
Yet had not quenched the open truth
And fiery vehemence of youth;
Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare,
The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,
Of hasty love or headlong ire.

“True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto V, stanza 13.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Contexte: True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It 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.

“Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord”

Walter Scott Harold the Dauntless

Harold the Dauntless (1817), Canto I, st. 4.
Contexte: Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord;
That which molders hemp and steel,
Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

“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.”

Sir Walter Scott Collection Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There's a gude time coming.”

Walter Scott livre Rob Roy

Source: Rob Roy (1817), Chapter 32.

“Art thou a friend to Roderick?”

Canto IV, stanza 30.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comes
May profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums;
For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire,
Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.”

Walter Scott livre Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 17, One of the verses of the ballad "The Barefooted Friar", sung by Friar Tuck to the Black Knight.

“But with the morning cool reflection came.”

Walter Scott livre Chronicles of the Canongate

Chronicles of the Canongate, Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.”

Walter Scott Marmion

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

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