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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

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

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Walter Scott livre Old Mortality

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

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

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Walter Scott Marmion

Canto V, stanza 16.
Marmion (1808)

“Rouse the lion from his lair.”

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Walter Scott livre The Talisman

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

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

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Walter Scott livre 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.”

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Canto I, stanza 1.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

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

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Walter Scott livre The Monastery

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

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

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Canto VI, stanza 18.
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.”

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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.”

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Walter Scott livre Ivanhoe

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

“Steady of heart, and stout of hand.”

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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.”

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Walter Scott livre Chronicles of the Canongate

Chronicles of the Canongate (1828), Second Series, Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=lo8nAAAAMAAJ&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&pg=PA19#v=onepage

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

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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.”

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Walter Scott livre Waverley

Source: Waverley (1814), Chapter LXX

“Along thy wild and willow'd shore.”

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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.”

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Canto I, stanza 18.
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.”

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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.”

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Walter Scott livre 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;”

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Walter Scott livre Waverley

Source: Waverley (1814), Chapter LVII

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

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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!”

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Canto II, stanza 22.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!”

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Walter Scott livre Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 31, Wamba celebrates their victory.

“Time rolls his ceaseless course.”

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Canto III, stanza 1.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“…We beg leave to transport the reader to the back-parlour of the post-master's house at Fairport, where his wife, he himself being absent, was employed in assorting for delivery the letters which had come by the Edinburgh post. This is very often in country towns the period of the day when gossips find it particularly agreeable to call on the man or woman of letters, in order, from the outside of the epistles, and, if they are not belied, occasionally from the inside also, to amuse themselves with gleaning information, or forming conjectures about the correspondence and affairs of their neighbours. Two females of this description were, at the time we mention, assisting, or impeding, Mrs. Mailsetter in her official duty.”

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Walter Scott livre The Antiquary

The Antiquary (1816), On the postal service

“Norman saw on English oak.
On English neck a Norman yoke;
Norman spoon to English dish,
And England ruled as Normans wish;
Blithe world in England never will be more,
Till England's rid of all the four.”

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Walter Scott livre Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 27, Proverb recited by Wamba to De Bracy and Front-de-Boeuf.

“Still are the thoughts to memory dear.”

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Walter Scott livre Rokeby

Canto I, stanza 33.
Rokeby (1813)

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.”

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Countess Brenhilda in Count Robert of Paris (1832), Ch. 25.

“O, Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!”

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Walter Scott Marmion

Canto VI, st. 30.
Marmion (1808)

“Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.”

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Life of Napoleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Stood for his country’s glory fast,
And nail’d her colours to the mast!”

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Walter Scott Marmion

Canto I, introduction, st. 10.
Marmion (1808)

“Alas! fair Rowena," returned De Bracy, "you are in presence of your captive, not your jailor; and it is from your fair eyes that De Bracy must receive that doom which you fondly expect from him.”

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Walter Scott livre Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 23, De Bracy's vain attempt to woo Rowena using the language of courtly love.

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