Scott, Sir Walter

A Scottish author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Scott wrote immensely popular historical novels, such as Ivanhoe and Waverley, and poems, including “The Lady of the Lake.”

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Scott, Sir Walter, Jefferson upon his novels, 184.

Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 86, 108, 122; a favourite of Prescott's, 41, 115; quoted, 129.

Scott, Sir Walter, sun-dial of, 219, 377.

Scott, Sir Walter, 129, 262, 285, 312, 335, 339, 341, 349, 350, 357, 361.

Scott, Sir Walter, 81, 139, 147.

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