And you're right, it's from Marmion, Canto Six, lines 532-533. The whole verse (
532-537) is: O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to ...
Jeffrey observed that much of the verse was 'flat and tedious'; he accused Scott
of ... Oh, what a tangled web we weave: When first we practise to deceive! ...
Oct 15, 2001 ... He led Lord Marmion to the dais, Raised o'er the pavement high, And placed him
in ...... Hast thou no elegiac verse For Brunswick's venerable hearse? ......
what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! ...
O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! ......
Reference to Cicero's cedant arma togae, a relic of an attempt at verse. line
414. ...
Jan 16, 2009 ... Poetry & Politicians: For Better or Verse - The Huffington Post. ... "Oh, what a
tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive!" ...
QUOTATION: Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
ATTRIBUTION: Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 17. WORKS: Sir Walter Scott Collection....
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Scott's narrative poems introduced a form of verse tale that won great
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Sir Walter Scott put it this way, "O what a tangled web we weave / When first we
practice to ... Verse 4 reveals a casual, self-righteous, and presumptuous ...