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, his story of two relatives who joined the Pretender.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Scott, Sir Walter: allusion, 22; quotations, 23, 77; dead, 63; "the hand of Douglas," 234; as a poet, 281; popularity, 316; poetic rank, 321.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Scott, Sir Walter, 31, 33, 41, 44, 56-59, 91, 110, 124, 277, 278, 283, 287; his mention of Cooper, 69, 160; Lockhart's life of, 159-161.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

Scott, Sir Walter, his story of sale of antiques.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Scott, Sir Walter, did not write poetry in Scottish dialect.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

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