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... Scott's youth there were still old men and women who could remember vividly the events of the '45 Rebellion , or the exploits of Rob Roy , and he listened eagerly to their stories . All his life he read and memorised the Border ballads ...
... Scott's youth there were still old men and women who could remember vividly the events of the '45 Rebellion , or the exploits of Rob Roy , and he listened eagerly to their stories . All his life he read and memorised the Border ballads ...
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... Scott a figure of gentle fun , with his narrow pedantic learning , his ill - tended estates , his family pride , dating from a charter from King David the First , and his Latin and French tags , which made his conversation almost ...
... Scott a figure of gentle fun , with his narrow pedantic learning , his ill - tended estates , his family pride , dating from a charter from King David the First , and his Latin and French tags , which made his conversation almost ...
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... Scott such social relationships were of the very stuff of history . Scott's novels are stories of exciting adventure and historical pageant , they are not primarily novels of psychology . He had a massive understanding of socio ...
... Scott such social relationships were of the very stuff of history . Scott's novels are stories of exciting adventure and historical pageant , they are not primarily novels of psychology . He had a massive understanding of socio ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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