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(On) Sir Walter Scott: Part IV

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

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Part IV

Surely all this is very beautiful; like a picture of Boccaccio' s; the ideal of a country life in our time. Why could it not last? Income was not wanting: Scott's official permanent income was amply adequate to meet the expense of all that was valuable in it; nay, of all that was not harassing, senseless and despicable. Scott had some 2,000l. a-year without writing books at all. Why should he manufacture and not create, to make more money; and rear mass on mass for a dwelling to himself, till the pile toppled, sank crashing, and buried him in its ruins, when ...

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