“Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.”
Walter Scott book The Bride of Lammermoor
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Ch. 3 - Lucy Ashton's Song.
Quotes from bookThe Bride of Lammermoor
The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, and tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose were published together anonymously as the third of Scott's Tales of My Landlord series. The story is the basis for Donizetti's 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor.
