1814 Quotes

“Although I may not be yours, I can never be another’s.”
― Mary Shelley

“When [Robert] Jamieson, the editor of the 5th edition of Burt's Letters, was in the Highlands in 1814, he met a savage-looking fellow on the top of Ben Lomond who told him that he had been a guide to the mountain for more than forty years, but now 'a Walter Scott' had spoiled his trade. 'I wish,' said he, 'I had him a ferry over Loch Lomond; I should be after sinking the boat, if I drowned myself into the bargain, for ever since he wrote his Lady of the Lake, as they call it, everybody goes to see that filthy hole, Loch Ketterine. The devil confound his ladies and his lakes!”
― John Campbell Shairp, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, AD 1803