Sir Walter Scott

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Sir Walter Scott is by George Saintsbury, and the designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr. Joseph Brown. James Clerk is quoted as telling a party of midshipmen, You may take Mr. Scott for a poor lamiter, gentlemen, but he is the first to begin a row and the last to end it. The text mentions Green Mantle, otherwise Miss Stuart of Belches, later Lady Forbes, and says it is better to respect Scott's own reticence on a subject of which very little is really known. The text notes that Scott speaks of his heart as handsomely pieced, pieced, it may be observed, not healed.

The text says that Caleb Balderstone has been perhaps unduly objected to by the very persons who praise the whole book. Bucklaw, though agreeable, is very slight, Craigengelt is a mere super, and the Marquis is shadowy, the text says. A list of topics with page numbers names, among others, a stroke of paralysis and resignation of Clerkship, Letters on Demonology, Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous, and monuments to Scott.

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George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury was an English literary critic, historian, editor, and university teacher whose scholarship covered both French and English writing. A History of Elizabethan Literature, first published by Macmillan in 1887, surveys poetry, drama, and prose from the early Tudor period through the seventeenth century.

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Author: George Saintsbury
Pages: 74
Language: English
Genre: Literature
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online