How To Use Walter Scott In A Sentence
- The former deals with contemporary life, while the latter expurgates and embellishes history after the manner of Walter Scott. Essays on Scandinavian Literature
- Even the bonnet with the eagle's feather, which Sir Walter Scott induced Kemble to substitute for his "shuttlecock" headdress of ostrich plumes, was held to be inadmissible: the Macbeth of the antiquaries wore a conical iron helmet, and was otherwise arrayed in barbaric armour. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
- It was necessary, on this account, that Lord Sinclair should disinherit his eldest son; and "as it would," says Sir Walter Scott, "have been highly impolitic to have alleged his forfeiture for treason as a cause of the deed, the slaughter of the Schaws was given as a reason for his exheredation. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
- But it was Pride and Prejudice that Austen described as her ‘own darling child’ which received highly favourable reviews, including an anonymous one from Sir Walter Scott.
- Throughout his career he had excoriated Walter Scott (even holding him almost single-handedly responsible for the Civil War), but now he was in the same boat as his bête noire.
- [1] Walter Scott's second verse romance, Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field was published in 1808, following the runaway success of The Lay of the Last Minstrel (London and Edinburgh, 1805). Letter 234
- Then [he says] comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government; with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society. My beloved South,
- When we got married I think we maybe had 10 books each, including novels by Sir Walter Scott.
- Travellers were not welcome and foraging parties of clansmen would regularly plunge south on what Sir Walter Scott called ‘predatory excursions upon their Lowland neighbours’.
- We have often regretted that Sir Walter Scott, who, after all, has not done full justice to Bruce in that very unequal and incondite poem 'The Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
