Scott, Sir Walter

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1. 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

Scott, Sir Walter, alterations in the proof-sheets of his "Waverley Novels," 15; a ghost word in his "Monastery," 158; Goethe on, 110; Ruskin on, 109.

From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman

Scott, Sir Walter, just in time to save Minstrelsy of the Border.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Scott, Sir Walter, and the blacksmith on the battle of Flodden.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Scott, Sir Walter, his translation of Götz von Berlichingen, 131; his writings influenced by it, 132.

From The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

Scott, Sir Walter, 28; his novel "Kenilworth," play founded on, 57; grave of, at Abbotsford, 111; works lightly esteemed by Charles Sumner, 169.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe