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, 212, 351, 377, 416; last words of, 296; death of, 338.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

Scott, Sir Walter, 68; Borrow's prejudice against, 19, 108, 344; influence of, on J. H. Newman, 345; Taylor's influence on, 66; interest of, in Thurtell's trial, 121; writings of, admired by Borrow, 344.

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

Scots Observer, the, 82 Scotsman, the, 61, 142 Scott, Sir Walter, 27, 124 Senatus Academicus, the, of Edinburgh University, 29, 186, 194.

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Gordon, Henry Laing

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 Koopman, Harry Lyman

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

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James