Walter Scott

Words from and tweets about Sir Walter Scott

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March 12.
Away we set and came safely to Abbotsford amid all the dullness of a great thaw that has set the rivers a streaming in full tide. The wind is wintry but for my part 'I like this rocking of the battlements.'

[Jamieson's Dictionary @JamiesonDict]

'Without entering at present into the origin of the former, I am bold to affirm, that it has as just a claim to the designation of a peculiar language as most of the other languages of Europe.' - from the Preface to Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary, 1808. /2

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It is brave to see how he wags his Scots tongue and what a difference there is in the force and firmness of the language compared to the mincing English edition in which he has hitherto been alone known.

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March 10.
I got to a meeting of the committee of the Bannatyne Club. I hope this institution will be really useful and creditable. Thomson is superintending a capital edition of Sir James Melville's Memoirs.

[Innerpeffray Library @Innerpeffray]

Discovery of the day is a #WalterScott letter feb 1831. Previously unrecorded? To Francis Freeling. @WalterScottNews @AbbotsfordScott @drdanielcook

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March 3rd.
Very severe weather, came home covered with snow. White as a frosted plum cake by jingo. No matter. I am not sorry to find I can stand a brush of weather yet.

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February 28th
I think discontinuing smoking as I have for these two months past leaves me less muzzy after dinner. At any rate it breaks a custom - I despise custom.

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Feb 27th
Humdudgeonish still, hang it, what fools we are! I worked but coldly and ill. I wonder if other people have these strange alternations of industry and incapacity.

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February 19.
The snow continues with a hard frost. I felt cold in its rigour in my childhood and boyhood but not since. In youth and advanced life we get less sensible to it but I remember thinking it worse than hunger.

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Steamship Sir Walter Scott out of service https://t.co/9k3rL72LBo

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February 18.
Very cold weather. I am rather glad I am not in the country. What says Dean Swift?
When frost and snow come both together
Then sit by the fire and save shoe leather

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February 13.
The dining parties come thick and interfere with work extremely. I am however beforehand very far. Yet as James B says, the tortoise comes up with the hare so puss must make new start. But not this week.

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February 6th
Was at Court till two, afterwards wrote a great deal, which has become a habit with me.

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February 1st
I feel a return of the cursed rheumatism. Also feverish and a slight headache. So much for claret and champagne.

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January 26.
My rheumatism is almost gone. I can walk without Major Weir, which is the name Anne gives my cane because it is so often out of the way it is suspected like the staff of that famous wizard to be capable of locomotion.

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Weber and then Gordon used to keep my things in some order - now that are verging to utter confusion. And then I have let my cash run ahead since I came from the continent - I must slump the matter as I can.

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Jan 14.
I feel a dislike to order and to task work of all kinds ... what I mean is a detestation of precise order in petty matters - in reading or answering letters, in keeping my papers arranged and in order and so on.

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January 12.
All this day occupied with camomile poultices and pen and ink. It is now four o'clock and I have written yesterday and today ten of my pages, that is one tenth of these large volumes.

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Jan 11th
Heavy snow. I remained at home and having nothing else to do worked hard and efficiently. I believe my sluggishness was partly due to the gnawing rheumatic pain in my knee for after all I am of opinion pain is an evil let Stoics say as they will.

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January 9.
Here blows a gale of wind. I was to go to Galashiels to settle some foolish lawsuit and afterwards to have been with Mr. Karr of Kippilaw to treat about a march dike. I shall content myself with the first duty for this day does not suit Bowden moor.