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The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of
Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Topic: Acting
Source: The Talisman (prologue), part of the Tales of the Crusaders
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Topic: Ambition
Source: None
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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Topic: Art
Source: None
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England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
Topic: Christmas
Source: Marmion (canto VI, introduction)
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Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Topic: Contention
Source: Peveril of the Peak (ch. XL)
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
Topic: Deception
Source: None
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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
Pity and woe! for such a mind
Is soft contemplative, and kind.
Topic: Fancy
Source: Rokeby (canto I, st. 31)
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Some feelings are to mortals given,
With less of earth in them than heaven.
Topic: Feeling
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto II, st. 22)
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A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
Topic: Footsteps
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 18)
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
Topic: Glory
Source: Old Mortality (ch. XXXIV, introductory stanza), discovered in "The Bee", Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791, s
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Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.
Topic: Growth
Source: The Heart of Midlothian (ch. VIII)
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Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
Topic: Guilt
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto V, st. 22)
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In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
Topic: Help
Source: The Lord of the Isles (canto I, st. 20)
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
Topic: Honesty
Source: None
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And honeysuckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
Topic: Honeysuckles
Source: Marmion (canto III, introduction)
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry
decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters
through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Topic: Listening
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 17)
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Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and for ever!
Topic: Loss
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 16)
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
Topic: Love of Country
Source: The Lay of the Last Ministrel (canto VI, st. 1)
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Topic: Love of Country
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto VI, st. 2)
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
Topic: Love of Country
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXXIV)
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Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare.
Topic: Merriment
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 21)
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Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal
Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
Topic: Navigation
Source: Kenilworth (ch. XVII, verses at head of chapter)
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention.
Topic: Necessity
Source: Peveril of the Peak (heading of ch. XXVI)
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Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Marmion (canto IV, st. 30)
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Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd,
For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard.
Topic: Praise
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto II, st. 24)
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You whirled them to the back of beyont.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Antiquary
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Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Bridal of Triermain (canto I, st. 21)
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There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Fortunes of Nigel (ch. 35)
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 1)
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto IV)
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto IV)
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Lay of the Last Ministrel (canto VI, st. 1)
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In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Lord of the Isles (canto I, st. 20)
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Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Marmion (canto I, st. 28)
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With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Marmion (canto V, st. 12)
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O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Marmion (canto VI, st. 17)
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Scared out of his seven senses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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As many servants so many enemies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked
brother.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested
destroys its chance of revenge.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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