Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814-1831), which were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe.
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- Liverpool
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Trending topics shown first"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love."
"Her haughtiness and habit of domination was, therefore, a fictitious character, induced over that which was natural to her, and it deserted her when her eyes were opened to the extent of her own dange…"
"Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers."
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