Redgauntlet

Possibly Scott refers to it in Redgauntlet (chapt. iv.); “One must be very fond of partridge to accept it when thrown in one’s face.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

_Societas est mater discordiarum_, which Scott in his humorous pathetic account of the law-suits of Peter Peebles _versus_ Plainstanes in "Redgauntlet," translates, Partnership oft makes pleaship.

Friendship Hugh Black

Was it simply a confusion of summer visits to Rafiel, stories told him by Mary, pictures in books (a fine illustrated edition of "Redgauntlet" had been a treasure to him since he was a baby), the exciting figure of the Captain, and the beginning of spring?

Jeremy Hugh Walpole 1912

Scott turned aside at the height of his power to try it in "Redgauntlet"; he never made a second attempt.

English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

Sir Walter Scott makes the romance of "Redgauntlet" hang on the incident.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

More than once I can remember her looking up from the pages of "Redgauntlet," and declaring that had the Prince been a more capable man we should be living in a castle in Scotland.

David Malcolm Nelson Lloyd 1903

The second was William Clerk, -- the _Darsie Latimer_ of "Redgauntlet"; "a man," as Scott says, "of the most acute intellects and powerful apprehension," but of more powerful indolence, so as to leave the world with little more than the report of what he might have been, -- a humorist as genuine, though not quite so savagely Swiftian as his brother Lord

Stories of Childhood Various 1885

'Redgauntlet' rests were but imperfectly known even to Sir Walter

Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

In "Wandering Willie's Tale" (in "Redgauntlet"), the right atmosphere is found, the right note is struck.

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

Who can read, for example, the inimitable legend of the blind piper in 'Redgauntlet' without seeing that it bears all the marks of long elaboration as clearly as one of those discourses of Whitfield, which, by constant repetition, became marvels of dramatic art?

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868