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Our host has many good books in French and Spanish, -- and in English, Walter Scott's Novels, which his wife fully appreciates.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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Another of those effusions is an "Essay upon the Drama," by a person called Walter Scott, who, it is affirmed, is still in the land of the living, but where he dwelleth, and what other productions he hath printed, we have been able to obtain no clue for finding out.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821
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In becoming a publisher, Robertson was going against the advice of one of his heroes, Walter Scott, which is cutely quoted in the prologue to The Testament of Gideon Mack: "the most unsafe and hazardous of all professions, scarcely with the exception of horse jockeyship".
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-- The Title-vignette is the Muse of Poetry with Cupids and scrolls labelled Walter Scott, Moore, Byron, and Shakespeare.
The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Those with an inclination to write in the "despised genre" might therefore find it worth considering that the authors who "win prizes" — such as Walter Scott and Tolstoy — are those who give the reader Eric Anderson's "unexpected viewpoint from which to witness a great historical moment."
Mongols on the Moskva Allan Mallinson 2011
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Representations of “Jewesses” by authors such as Walter Scott and George Eliot were primarily sympathetic, though others like Trollope saw the Jewish woman as exotic and seductive.
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But poets such as Walter Scott and Wordsworth discovered the beauties of their native land.
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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'Walter Scott's' generosity and kindness to Gillies in the midst of his own Ruin; a stretch of Goodness that Wordsworth would not, I think, have reached.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Edward FitzGerald 1846
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"Walter Scott," said he, "has run to death the method of _patois_ dialogue."
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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We also met a fine specimen of the noble, intelligent Scotchwoman, such as Walter Scott and Burns knew how to prize.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
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