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SCOTT'S KNOWLEDGE OF SHAKESPEARE . 6 DURING his lifetime and for many years after his death Sir Walter Scott was often called the Scottish Shakespeare , although he himself disclaimed the comparison when he wrote in his Journal ' the ...
SCOTT'S KNOWLEDGE OF SHAKESPEARE . 6 DURING his lifetime and for many years after his death Sir Walter Scott was often called the Scottish Shakespeare , although he himself disclaimed the comparison when he wrote in his Journal ' the ...
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One doubts if Scott wrote the Preface to this collection , especially as it states : Coarse and indelicate passages may be found by those who love to glean for them ; but the general tenour of our more ancient Plays is highly virtuous .
One doubts if Scott wrote the Preface to this collection , especially as it states : Coarse and indelicate passages may be found by those who love to glean for them ; but the general tenour of our more ancient Plays is highly virtuous .
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In February 1823 Constable sent an estimate with specimen sheets of The Two Gentlemen of Verona ' to Scott and to his own partner , Robert Cadell , informing the latter that it would be one of the best things we ever undertook .
In February 1823 Constable sent an estimate with specimen sheets of The Two Gentlemen of Verona ' to Scott and to his own partner , Robert Cadell , informing the latter that it would be one of the best things we ever undertook .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 290 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1952 |
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