"Scott" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nothing of the real situation; she fancied she had been insulted, and demanding of her father that he should cease all negotiations regarding Frederick's suggested engagement to her, she proceeded to take stronger measures. Readers of Sir Walter Scott's Anne of Geierstein will recall the Vehmgericht, that 'Secret Tribunal' whose deeds were notorious in medieval Germany, and it chanced that the Luzensteins were in touch with this body. Its minions ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence
... Scott, and form part of those which excited the horror of the father of Frank Osbaldiston, when he examined his waste-book in search of Reports outward and inward—Corn Debentures, &c. See Rob Roy, chap. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853 • Various
... of Elizabeth, Scott's "Kenilworth," the non-historical plays of Shakspere, as he lived at that epoch, Bacon's Essays, ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly
... Walpurgis night. That times have changed I realise myself; No longer through the chimney I descend; I enter like a super from the side. Widowers' Houses dramas have become; Morals and sentiment and Clement Scott No more seem adjuncts of the ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
... it has disseminated loyalty throughout America for years, and, as a gift on each 1st of January, has been in the habit of publishing a print of large size, engraved in exceedingly brilliant style, which is presented to its subscribers. The Queen, the Duke, the Conqueror of the Seas, Walter Scott, and his Monument at Edinburgh, &c., are the fruits; and these plates would sell in England for at least half a guinea, or a ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle
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