Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.
SIR WALTER SCOTT AND HIS QUOTATIONS FROM HIMSELF.
Your correspondent A. J. Dunkin (Vol. viii., p. 622.) asks who was the author of the couplet,—
"Oh! for a blast of that dread horn,
On Fontarabian echoes borne."
In reply to which Query you refer him to the juvenile efforts of Frank Osbaldiston in the delightful novel of Rob Roy.
You might have referred him likewise to a corresponding passage in the sixth canto of Marmion, sec. xxxiii., from which the accomplished poet and novelist repeated inadvertently his own verses:
"O for a blast of that dread horn,