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(On) Sir Walter Scott: Part II

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Carlyle, Thomas

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Part II

Now all this can be predicated of Walter Scott, and of no British literary man that we remember in these days, to any such extent, - if it be not perhaps of one, the most opposite imaginable to Scott, but his equal in this quality and what holds of it: William Cobbett! Nay, there are other similarities, widely different as they two look; nor be the comparison disparaging to Scott: for Cobbett also, as the pattern John Bull of his century, strong as the rhinoceros, and with singular humanities and genialities shining through his thick skin, is a most brave ...

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