Category: Biographies
Lockhart's _Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart._, which divides with Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ the honor of leading all lives of English men of letters, was first published in seven volumes in 1837-1838. A second edition, with some corrections, some slight revisio...
Scott was called to the Bar only the day before the closing of the session, and he appears to have almost immediately escaped to the country. On the 2d of August I find his fath...
2. Chapter 2The present age has discovered a desire, or rather a rage, for literary anecdote and private history, that may be well permitted to alarm one who has engaged in a certain degree...
9. Chapter 9Rebelling, as usual, against circumstances, Scott seems to have turned with renewed ardor to his literary pursuits; and in that same October, 1796, he was "prevailed on," as he...
6. Chapter 6In the Minute-books of the Society of Writers to the Signet appears the following entry: "Edinburgh, 15th May, 1786. Compeared Walter Scott, and presented an indenture, dated 31...
1. Chapter 1Lockhart's _Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart._, which divides with Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ the honor of leading all lives of English men of letters, was first p...
3. Chapter 3Sir Walter Scott opens his brief account of his ancestry with a playful allusion to a trait of national character, which has, time out of mind, furnished merriment to the neighb...
4. Chapter 4The report of Walter's progress in horsemanship probably reminded his father that it was time he should be learning other things beyond the department either of Aunt Jenny or Un...
7. Chapter 7The two following letters may sufficiently illustrate the writer's every-day existence in the autumn of 1790. The first, addressed to his _fidus Achates_, has not a few indicati...
5. Chapter 5On returning to Edinburgh, and entering the College, in November, 1783, Scott found himself once more in the fellowship of all his intimates of the High School; of whom, besides...