Rokeby

The place thus bought for 4000_l. _, -- half of which, according to Scott's bad and sanguine habit, was borrowed from his brother, and half raised on the security of a poem at the moment of sale wholly unwritten, and not completed even when he removed to Abbotsford -- "Rokeby" -- became only too much of an idol for the rest of Scott's life.

Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861

Walter Scott has published a new book called "Rokeby," dedicated to Mr

The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

Here, at the risk of making our readers read again what they may have read before, we transcribe a passage from a memorandum of Mr. Morritt's, containing an account of Scott's proceedings while studying the localities of "Rokeby": --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

This incident furnished Sir Walter Scott with materials for a similar adventure in "Rokeby," canto vi.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Some of his ballads are more perfect artistically than his long metrical romances; those of them especially which are built up from a burden or fragment of old minstrel song, like "Jock o 'Hazeldean" [13] and the song in "Rokeby":

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

"Rokeby" lives only by its songs; the "Lord of the Isles" by Bannockburn, the "Field of Waterloo" by the repulse of the Cuirassiers.

Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

When "Rokeby" appeared, only one copy reached Cambridge, and the happy student who secured that was followed by an eager crowd demanding that the poem should be read aloud to them.

Side Lights James Runciman 1871

[453-1] Under the impression that this stanza is ancient, Scott has made very free use of it, first in "Rokeby" (1813), and then in the "Monastery" (1816).

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

'"Rokeby" has given a glory to buccaneering,' he replied.

Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

And beginning with "Rokeby" (the job's sure to pay)

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815