“sir walter scott”

Old Mortality is a novel of Scott's search for Scottish spiritual regeneration. His deep-felt anguish on the strife between the Covenanters and the Episcopalians forms the backbone of the novel.... More

From the quotations which I have produced the selfish and disgusting conduct of Lord Dalgarno will not perhaps appear overstrained; nor will the scenes in Whitefriars and places of similar resort seem too highly coloured.... More

While the mother insisted on these topics the lover in vain conjured the daughter to declare her own opinion and feelings.... More

The ideal being who is here presented as residing in solitude and haunted by a consciousness of his own deformity- and a suspicion of his being generally subjected to the scorn of his fellow-men- is not altogether imaginary.' (From Introduction)... More

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn- the free rendezvous of all travellers- and where the humour of each displays itself without ceremony or restraint.' (Excerpt)... More