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Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Rediscovered

 

Paddington Here and Now Michael Bond Folio edition 2010

Hi everybody,

Holiday time and time reading too 😉

We’d like to wish you a very good summer, whether you go on holiday or not. Why not take advantage of this leisure time to read this or that old volume by one of […]

July 7th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Sir Walter Scott | One comment

Walter Scott’s First Letters to and from C.K. Sharpe at Hoddom Castle

 

Thomas Carlyle Portrait

 

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time:the articulate audible voice of the Past,

when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

(Thomas Carlyle)

June 29th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Castles, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Smailholm Tower: A Walter Scott Trail Landmark In The Scottish Borders

Smailholm Tower © 2007 Scotiana

By the green hill and clear blue heaven. It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliff’s were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved […]

June 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Sir Walter Scott | One comment

The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

‘I have read all Walter Scott’s novels at least fifty times’

(Byron)

While we are longing to go back to Scotland, our quest for the author of the Waverley novels, which began in 2000 with the visit of Abbotsford, has never ceased to go on […]

June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Sir Walter Scott | One comment

Dryburgh Abbey, Sir Walter Scott’s Final Resting Place

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Dryburgh Abbey © 2006 Scotiana

Under the shade of more than centenary cedars, on a loop of the River Tweed, amidst the beautiful ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, lies Sir Walter Scott, the beloved man and great Scottish writer who, having done so much to celebrate his country, finally died like the heroe […]

May 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Sir Walter Scott | One comment
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