Walter Scott Quotes About Country
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
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It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
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Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
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