← Table of contents
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

Note 528 — JUNE.

Reading edition

"No sooner had the Sun uttered these words than Fortune, as if she had been playing on a cymbal, began to unwind her wheel, which, whirling about like a hurricane, huddled all the world into an unparalleled confusion. Fortune gave a mighty squeak, saying, 'Fly, wheel, and the devil drive thee.'"—Fortune in her Wits, Quevedo. English trans. (1798), vol. iii. p. 107.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings