quotation from sir walter scott

to save the puir burning bodies

as if a God had left His impress

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Request for Question Clarification by websearcher-ga on 21 Aug 2002 14:02 PDT

Hi halbird:

What exactly is you want to know about this quote?

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Request for Question Clarification by grimace-ga on 22 Aug 2002 04:09 PDT

Hi,

It seems you're not the only one after these quotations. The Collected
Works of Florence Nightingale Project is also seeking to identify them
- perhaps you are related? Was this your source for the quotes? The
site is ambiguous as to whether the second quote - "as if a God had
left His impress" - is indeed Scott or if it's from another,
unidentified source.

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale: Unidentified English
http://www.sociology.uoguelph.ca/fnightingale/Attention/Unidentified-English.htm

Hi halbird

Not proving easy to track this/these for you.  No trace in these works
which are on-line (as are a few of the shorter poems):
The Antiquary 
The Black Dwarf 
The Heart of Midlothian 
Ivanhoe 
Kenilworth 
The Lay of the Last Minstrel 
A Legend of Montrose
Rob Roy 
The Talisman 
The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque 
Waverley

If you're working on an academic project (my researcher's nose - I
can't stop myself) you might get help from nineteenth century
specialists in Scottish Literature departments at Scottish
universities, e.g. Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews.  For
instance, at Glasgow see this list:

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/ScotLit/staff.htm

Good luck - hope someone tracks down the reference for you.

Leli