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
“Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto II, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto IV, conclusion
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Walter Scott libro Woodstock
Woodstock, Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles
Canto IV, stanza 13.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
Canto III, stanza 16 (Coronach, stanza 3). <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.”
Canto V, stanza 10. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Canto I, stanza 17. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto VI, stanza 1.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto VI, stanza 2.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto VI, stanza 31.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.”
Walter Scott libro Ivanhoe
Origine: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 36, Malvoisin speaking to De Bois-Guilbert.
“My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.”
Walter Scott libro Rob Roy
Origine: Rob Roy (1817), Chapter 34.
Walter Scott libro Woodstock
Woodstock (1826), Ch.1.
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto V, stanza 1.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.”
Walter Scott libro Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward (1823), Ch. 3.
“Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.”
Walter Scott libro The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Walter Scott libro Ivanhoe
Origine: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 39, De Bois-Guilbert speaking to Rebecca.
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto VI, introduction, st. 3.
Marmion (1808)
“When Prussia hurried to the field,
And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto III, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
“Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto IV, stanza 30.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott libro The Monastery
Origine: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 9.
“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”
Walter Scott libro The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Walter Scott libro The Betrothed
The The Betrothed (1825), Volume I, Chapter XIII http://books.google.com/books?id=3w8OAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Too+much+rest+is+rust%22&pg=PA226#v=onepage
