Walter Scott frasi celebri
citato in Harold Acton, Gli ultimi Borboni di Napoli
citato in L'Unità Arte, n. 12, 1997
Walter Scott Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Citato in William Somerset Maugham, Pride and Prejudice, in «Atlantic», 181, 5 maggio 1948; trad. it. di Marco Fiocca in Jane Austen, Orgoglio e pregiudizio, Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2014, pp. 383-384. ISBN 978-88-04-50615-7
Variante: La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, pur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino, le orge, con il loro et coetera, è altrettanto poco cristiano, e non altrettanto senza effusione di sangue. E' meglio scavalcare il recinto di un parco per appostare una dama od una donzella, che sparare contro un vecchio.
Walter Scott: Frasi in inglese
“A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.”
Canto I, stanza 18. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Walter Scott libro Ivanhoe
Origine: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 29, Ivanhoe explains to Rebecca the virtues of chivalry.
Walter Scott libro Rokeby
Canto V, stanza 1.
Rokeby (1813)
“O fading honours of the dead!
O high ambition, lowly laid!”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto II, stanza 10.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“In man's most dark extremity
Oft succour dawns from Heaven.”
Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles
Canto I, stanza 20.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
To a Lock of Hair http://www.bartleby.com/106/105.html.
“Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.”
Walter Scott libro The Bride of Lammermoor
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Ch. 3 - Lucy Ashton's Song.
“I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto II, stanza 22.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“No pale gradations quench his ray,
No twilight dews his wrath allay.”
Walter Scott libro Rokeby
Canto VI, stanza 21.
Rokeby (1813)
“Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!”
Canto II, stanza 19. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Canto I, stanza 31. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto III, stanza 11.
Marmion (1808)
“Randolph, thy wreath has lost a rose.”
Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles
Canto VI, stanza 18.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
Walter Scott libro Ivanhoe
Origine: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 3.
Walter Scott libro Ivanhoe
Origine: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 43, Malvoisin to Mont-Fitchet
“Spangling the wave with lights as vain
As pleasures in the vale of pain,
That dazzle as they fade.”
Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles
Canto I, stanza 23.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
Walter Scott libro The Talisman
The Talisman (1825), Introduction.
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Introduction
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto III, stanza 24.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.”
Walter Scott libro Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward (1823), Ch. 4.
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 5).
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott libro Waverley
Origine: Waverley (1814), Chapter LXXII, A postscript, which should have been a preface
“I was not always a man of woe.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto II, stanza 12.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“But search the land of living men,
Where wilt thou find their like again?”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto I, introduction, st. 11.
Marmion (1808)
“November’s sky is chill and drear,
November’s leaf is red and sear.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto I, introduction, st. 1.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott libro The Heart of Midlothian
The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Ch. 4.
Canto V, stanza 10. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Walter Scott libro Peveril of the Peak
Peveril of the Peak, Chap. xlii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto I, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
