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Many consider Walter Scott to be the inventor of the historical novel.Walter Scott = Scottish poet and author of historical novels such as Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy
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Walter Scott's poem, The Lady of the Lake, is largely forgotten, but has influenced familiar aspects of Western culture.
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Although her fits had passed off, she was in every other way her old self: when Sir Walter Scott became involved in lengthy descriptions of moats and castles, Mrs. Dubose would become bored and pick on us: "Jeremy Finch, I told you you'd live to regret tearing up my camellias." (source)Sir Walter Scott = famous Scottish poet and author (1771-1832)
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Wilson, for instance, who despised "college professors" and their tastes, tackled the problem of the "boring" modern story at great and lucid length, ending with the intriguing conclusion that each age has its own acceptable boredoms, with Joyce's boredoms being no greater than Sir Walter Scott's. (source)Sir Walter Scott = Scottish poet and author of historical novels such as Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy
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Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq. (source)
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Today I would like to recite to you a poem by Sir Walter Scott entitled lochinvar.'† (source)
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He had been in People (first best-seller) and Us (first divorce); there had been a question about him one Sunday in Walter Scott's Personality Parade.† (source)Walter Scott = Scottish poet and author of historical novels such as Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy
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James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, William Dean Howells.† (source)
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She had read them Walter Scott's Ivanhoe when Jeff and Johnny were six and seven, respectively.† (source)
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You might like to read Mrs. Moodie's poem 'The Maniac,' if you are an aficionado of Sir Walter Scott.† (source)
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But I had all of Shakespeare and Walter Scott and Dickens and Fenimore Cooper.† (source)
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The Romantic movement of the 1820s brought back a yearning for narrow-waisted heroines like the ones in the novels of Sir Walter Scott (the Dan Brown of his day—though Sir Walter would not have dared dress a French heroine in a big sweater and black leggings, as Mr. Brown did poor Sophie Neveu inThe Da Vinci Code ), and corsets gained popularity while skirts became wider.† (source)
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He had taken up reading modern epic poems and novels, "romances," he reported to Rush—Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, Jane Porter's Scottish Chiefs—and was finding great enjoyment in them.† (source)
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There was a crude bookshelf made of three shingles strung together over the desk and I looked at the books, Byron's poems, novels by Sir Walter Scott, Confessions of an Opium Eater, some shabby brown volumes, and on the last shelf, Lift and Letters of ....The rest was eaten away.† (source)
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Everywhere was a Walter Scott heroine being loved by men with helmets or with plumes in their caps.† (source)
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It is by the author of 'Waverley': that is Sir Walter Scott.† (source)
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