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Letter "S" » Sir Walter Scott
"The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of
Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Acting
"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Ambition
"Art thou a friend to Roderick?"
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Art
"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."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Christmas
"Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Contention
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!"
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Deception
"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."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Fancy
"Some feelings are to mortals given,
With less of earth in them than heaven."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Feeling
"A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Footsteps
"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."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Glory
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