Old Mortality is a novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the period 1679–89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels.
It was originally titled The Tale of Old Mortality, but is generally shortened in most references.
Plot summary
After an Introduction to the Tales of My Landlord, supposedly written by the novel's (fictional) editor Jedediah Cleishbotham, an introduction by the author describes Robert Paterson, a Scotsman of the 18th century, who late in life decided to travel around Scotland re-engraving the tombs of 17th century Covenanter martyrs, and who Scott met at Dunottar. In the first chapter of the novel Cleishbotham describes at length meeting Paterson, hearing his anecdotes, and finding other stories of the events to present an unbiased picture.
The novel then describes a wapenshaw held in 1679 by Lady Margaret Bellenden, life-rentrix of the barony of Tillietudlem. This was a show of her support for the Royalist cause, but most of her tenants favoured the opposing Covenanters (who wanted the re-establishment of presbyterianism in Scotland) and she has to enlist her unwilling servants. After her supporters are duly mustered, the main sport is a shoot at the popinjay in which the Cavalier favourite is narrowly defeated by Henry Morton, son of a Covenanter. He is introduced to Lady Margaret and her lovely granddaughter Edith Bellenden.
Hello everyone, and Merry Christmas! ... These moments of connection are what you will think of when you are old. These are the moments that will live on beyond your mortal coil, the love you give and receive imprinting itself on the fabric of reality.
On December 6, we received a call from the Russian embassy informing us that he died in June and that his mortal remains would be sent to us,' said Ajay Yadav, the 23-year-old elder son of Kanhaiya ...
Moose biologist Kantar has already started surveying WMD 4 from the air in preparation for his annual trip to put electronic collars on “short yearlings” — moose calves that are not quite a year old — to track mortality from winter ticks ... ....
The image was shot on November 30, 2013, the same day the 40-year-old lost his life in a devastating car crash ... He was 41-years-old when he died, just a day after smiling alongside his wife and children by a sunlit beach.
Teaching 19th-centuryEnglish literature, I regularly encounter gutting depictions of losing a child, and I am reminded that not knowing the emotional cost of widespread child mortality is a luxury.
The 15-year-old was arrested Wednesday, Metro... Gunfire hit the car Dominguez was a passenger in, mortally wounding her and injuring two other 19-year-olds, police said.
... with suspected cases of hepatitis A died “due to lack of capabilities to diagnose, treat, and monitor them,” compared with a normal mortality rate of 0.1 percent in children under 15 years old.
There’s nothing so rewarding as a case of old wine in new bottles ... The old school grandeur of his Schubert9th symphony, in total disregard of modern performance practice, was magnificent ... Mortality’s ...
You can watch Anora at home now. Photo. NEON... Juror #2 ... Absolution ... Maybe this is one! Neeson stars as an old mob enforcer who is told he has CTE and a ticking clock on his mortality (a lot of Neeson action heroes lately turn his age into a plot point).
Pierre was in the Dominican Republic, midway through the shoot of M Night Shyamalan’s bonkers, beach-based mortality thriller Old, in which he plays the amusingly named rapper, Mid-Sized Sedan.
... celebrity cameos dating back to Cybermania ‘94 where, at 15 years old, he was an “interactive product specialist” and Jonathan Taylor Thomas announced MortalKombat as the winner of best overall game.
In the movie “The Big Chill,” a group of old friends gather for the funeral of one of their own, and it turns into a reunion. Recently, a group of my old friends gathered for a reunion, and it turned into a gathering for a funeral.
“I like to decipher symbols, and old text, and my dreams ... I guess I hope they (guests) walk away feeling curious about their own well-being and their mortality,” she added. The 39-year-old artist earned ...
