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
“War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.”
Old Mortality, Volume II (1816), Chapter XI.
“But woe awaits a country when
She sees the tears of bearded men.”
Canto V, stanza 16.
Marmion (1808)
“Rouse the lion from his lair.”
The Talisman (1825), Heading, Ch. 6.
“Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.”
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.
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!”
Origine: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
“Where, where was Roderick then!
One blast upon his bugle-horn
Were worth a thousand men.”
Canto VI, stanza 18.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“Steady of heart, and stout of hand.”
Canto I, stanza 21.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
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.”
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 1).
Marmion (1808)
“Along thy wild and willow'd shore.”
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.”
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.”
Pibroch of Donald Dhu (1816), St. 4.
“If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight.”
Canto II, stanza 1.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
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!”
Origine: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 31, Wamba celebrates their victory.
“Time rolls his ceaseless course.”
Canto III, stanza 1.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Origine: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 27, Proverb recited by Wamba to De Bracy and Front-de-Boeuf.
“Still are the thoughts to memory dear.”
Canto I, stanza 33.
Rokeby (1813)
Countess Brenhilda in Count Robert of Paris (1832), Ch. 25.
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!”
Canto I, introduction, st. 10.
Marmion (1808)
Origine: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 23, De Bracy's vain attempt to woo Rowena using the language of courtly love.
