Album of Scottish Scenery : a Series of Views, Illustrating Several Places of Interest Mentioned in Sir W. Scott's Poems and Novels (1860)
Tillotson, John · London : T.J. Allman · leaf 52
e hasdescribed, Scott thoroughly familiarized himself with the landscape, sittinghere beneath the shadow of an old oak, and there upon the sands within thebeating of the surge. While meditating his verses, he used -to stray And waste the solitary day In plucking from yon fen the reed, And watch it… … BRAID HILL. 29 But solitary days could scarcely be said to be wasted, which produced so muchgood poetry—so many well told tales—so much to entertain and to instructthe young and old, the rich and poor, the rude and most refined. Scott drew inspiration from the locality by which he was…
Scotland · Scott, Sir Walter, Bart, 1771-1832 · Drawings, Scottish
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