The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (Paperback or Softback)

Scott, Walter

ISBN 10: 1410107566 / ISBN 13: 9781410107565

Edité par Fredonia Books (NL) 11/2/2004, 2004

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The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott.

N° de réf. du vendeur BBS-9781410107565

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• Titre: The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (Paperback or Softback)
• Éditeur: Fredonia Books (NL) 11/2/2004
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1410107566
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781410107565
• Reliure: Paperback or Softback
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 2,43 livres
• Type de livre: Book

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"Reprinted from the 1894 edition"--T.p. verso.

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Sir Walter Scott came of a family of Scotch ge Dtlemen. One of his ancestors, six generations before him, whose name also was Walter Scott, is celebrated in The Lay of the Last Minstrel ;and his grandfather, Robert Scott, is described in the poetical introduction to Marmion, the third canto. Sir Walter sfather, who was a successful solicitor in Edinburgh, was the first man of the great riding and sporting and fighting clan to adopt a town life and a sedentary profession. It was in Edinburgh that Sir Walter, the ninth of twelve children, was born on August 15, 1771, precisely two yeajs, (as the date has usually been fixed) after the birth of Napoleon, whose life he wrote ;a piece of literary work that was done for profit that brought a large sum, and that has long ago been forgotten. Several more or less important dates in English literature fall near this time. During this very year, 1771, Gray died ;the next year Coleridge was born, and the year thereafter Goldsmith died. Dr. Johnson lived thirteen years after Scotts birth, and Byron was his contemporary, although he was seventeen years younger. The three great Scotchmen of our literature were alive at the same time, for a brief period; for Carlyle was born the year before Burns died, and Scott was then twenty-five years old. In his early childhood, Scott was left lame by a fever which, as he said, rather disfigured than disabled him ;for, in spite of his lameness, he became a very robust man, and he was exceedingly handsome. During the weakly period of his childhood he was sent to his grandfather s, where he lived much in the open air and much alone. Since he was five years old, he once said, a troop of horse had been exercising in his head; and at a very early time he took the keenest delight in the ballads of border warfare in all sorts of brave tales, indeed. He was thirteen when he first saw a copy of
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