It was as if Sir Walter Scott had hurled a thunderbolt at him straight from heaven.
In 1822 Sir Walter Scott, a romantic novelist, was asked to stage-manage George IV's visit to Edinburgh.
Sir Walter Scott nailed it: Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
The phrase -- "Hail to the Chief" -- originated in Scotland in 1810 as part of a poem by Sir Walter Scott.
Rand delved into books at an early age and was most influenced by the works of Victor Hugo and Sir Walter Scott.
Funding in the Scottish Borders town will focus on the Market Place area as well as the category A listed building, Sir Walter Scott's former court house.
That is the pseudonym adopted by Sir Walter Scott when, in March 1826, he launched a spirited and sustained attack against an earlier effort to interfere with Scotland's paper currency.
They have also gifted to the trust a late 19th century carved wooden panel featuring a bust of Sir Walter Scott which hung for many years in The Fleece Hotel in Selkirk.
Lord Steel, who still lives in the area, also hopes the rail line will improve tourism and thinks Tweedbank station should be renamed Abbotsford to mark its proximity to the former home of Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott.
In his opening remarks Monday, in what is expected to be a lengthy trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Durham returned repeatedly to the image of Mr. Clemens caught up in a web of his own weaving, citing the famous poem by Sir Walter Scott.
It is no insult to young Paolini to say that his books are effectively co-written with Tolkien, any more than it is an insult to Chatterton-Rowley to say that his had a co-author in Macpherson-Ossian or, for that matter, that virtually all medieval-minded historical novels in the nineteenth century, including some very good ones, were produced jointly with Sir Walter Scott.
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