Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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Page 168
... Scott did precisely that to Scot- land , and the spell has not lifted . For better or worse , Scotland as it is seen to - day is largely the creation of Walter Scott . And the best existing means of testing the extent of this transforma ...
... Scott did precisely that to Scot- land , and the spell has not lifted . For better or worse , Scotland as it is seen to - day is largely the creation of Walter Scott . And the best existing means of testing the extent of this transforma ...
Page 181
... Scott did not actually see them until the day after his experience of the haunted chamber . His memory has here done just what his imagination would have done if he had been constructing a fiction : that is , has blended a collection of ...
... Scott did not actually see them until the day after his experience of the haunted chamber . His memory has here done just what his imagination would have done if he had been constructing a fiction : that is , has blended a collection of ...
Page 187
... Scott used in The Lay of the Last Minstrel , and , if it had been written by Scott , would have been accompanied by voluminous antiquarian notes , showing in detail just how the original history had been cooked . Words- worth was rather ...
... Scott used in The Lay of the Last Minstrel , and , if it had been written by Scott , would have been accompanied by voluminous antiquarian notes , showing in detail just how the original history had been cooked . Words- worth was rather ...
Contents
THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT HERBERT DAVIS Smith College | 33 |
THE INSPIRATION OF POPES POETRY JOHN BUTT Bedford | 65 |
WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR PLAIN HOMELY DWELL | 80 |
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