Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . SIR WALTER SCOTT By W. C. Taylor, (1771-1832). T ^HE life of an author who took no ac-tive part in public affairs, but sentforth from his own fireside those marvelsof imagination which have afforded delightand instruction to millions, furnishes inter-est of a different kind from the biographiesof those whose names are associated withgreat events. We look more to the manthan to his age; we endeavor to trace thecircumstances by which his mind
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . SIR WALTER SCOTT By W. C. Taylor, (1771-1832). T ^HE life of an author who took no ac-tive part in public affairs, but sentforth from his own fireside those marvelsof imagination which have afforded delightand instruction to millions, furnishes inter-est of a different kind from the biographiesof those whose names are associated withgreat events. We look more to the manthan to his age; we endeavor to trace thecircumstances by which his mind wasmoulded and his tastes formed, and wefeel anxious to discov^er the connectionbetween his literary and his personal his-tory and character. There have been fewauthors in whose career this connectionwas more strongly apparent than in Sir Walter Scott; his life is, to a greatextent, identified with his writings, and this appears to be the source of that feel- BCOTT IN CHILDHOOD. SIR WALTER SCOTT 131 iiig of truth and reality which is forced upon us while perusing his fictions. Hewas born at Edinburgh, August 15, 1771. His father was one of that respectableclass of attorneys called, in Scotland,
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