Marmion (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from MarmionWalter Scott was born in Edinburgh, August 15, 1771, of an ancient Scotch clan numbering in its time many a hard rider and good fighter, and more than one of these petty chieftains, half-shep herd and half-robber, who made good the winter inroads into their stock of beeves by spring forays and cattle drives across the English Border. Scott 's great-grandfather was the famous Beardie of Harden, so called because after the exile of the Stuart sovereigns he swore never to cut his beard until they were reinstated, and several degrees farther back he could point to a still more famous figure, Auld Wat of Harden, who with his fair dame, the Flower of Yarrow, is mentioned in the Lay of the Last Minstrel. The first member of the clan to abandon country life and take up a sedentary profession, was Scott's father, who settled in Edinburgh as Writer to the Signet, a position corresponding in Scotland to that of attorney or solicitor in England. The character of this father, stern, scrupulous, Calvinistic, with a high sense of ceremonial dignity and a punctilious regard for the honorable conventions of life, united.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.