The Bridal of Triermain

Or the Vale of St. John

By Walter Scott

2009

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Subtitle: A Poem. by the Author of 'the Bridal of Triermain'. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: FRAGMENTS. THE POACHER. Welcome, grave Stranger, to our green retreats, Where health with exercise and freedom meets 1 Thrice welcome, Sage, whose philosophic plaa By Nature's limits metes the rights of man; Generous as he, who now for freedom bawls, . Now gives full value for true Indian shawls; O'er court, o'er custom-bouse, his shoe who flings, Now bilks excisemen, and now bullies kings. Like his, I ween, thy comprehensive mind Holds laws as mouse-traps baited for mankind; Thine eye, applausive, ' each sly vermin sees, That baulks the snare, yet battens on the cheese; Thine ear has heard, with scorn instead of awe, Our buckskin'd justices expound the law, Wire-draw the acts that fix for wires the pain, And for the netted partridge noose the swain; And thy vindictive arm would fain have broke The last light fetter of the feudal yoke, To give the denizens of wood and wild, Nature's free race, to each her free-born child. Hencehast thoumark'd, with grief, fair London's race Mock'd with the boon of one poor Easter chace, And long'd to send them forth as free as when Pour'd o'er Chantilly the Parisian train, When musquet, pistol, blunderbuss, combined, And scarce the field-pieces were left behind A squadron's charge each leveret's heart dismay'd, On every covey fired a bold brigade; La Douce Humanite approved the sport, / For great the alarm indeed, yet small the hurt; Shouts patriotic solemnized the day, And Seine re-echo'd Vive la Lilerte But mad Citoyen, meek Monsieur aga...

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Walter Scott

Author · 62 books

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. British writer Sir Walter Scott popularized and refined a genre of ballads and historical novels; his works include Waverley (1814) and Ivanhoe (1819). Sir Walter Alva Scott created and called a series. Scott arranged the plots and characters so that the reader enters into the lives of great and ordinary persons, caught in violent, dramatic changes. Work of Scott shows the influence of the 18th century Enlightenment. He thought of every basically decent human, regardless of class, religion, politics, or ancestry. A major theme tolerates. They express his theory in the need for social progress that rejects not the traditions of the past. He first portrayed peasant characters sympathetically and realistically and equally justly portrayed merchants, soldiers, and even kings. In central themes, cultures conflict and oppose. Normans and Saxons warred. In The Talisman (1825), Christians and Muslims conflict. He deals with clashes between the new English and the old Scottish culture. Other great include Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Midlothian (1819), and Saint Ronan's Well (1824). His series includes Rob Roy (1817), A Legend of Montrose (1819), and Quentin Durward (1823). Amiability, generosity, and modesty made Scott popular with his contemporaries. He also famously entertained on a grand scale at Abbotsford, his Scottish estate.