Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

By Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, (1771 – 1832) was once a Scottish historic novelist, playwright, and poet. Scott used to be the 1st English-language writer to have a very foreign profession in his lifetime, with many modern readers in Europe, Australia, and North the US. His novels and poetry are nonetheless learn, and lots of of his works stay classics of either English-language literature and of Scottish literature. well-known titles contain Ivanhoe, The Antiquary and man Mannering, or The Astrologer.

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To steady myself, let me catch hold of the first idea that passes.... Shakespeare.... Well, he will do as well as another. A man who sat himself solidly in an arm-chair, and looked into the fire, so—A shower of ideas fell perpetually from some very high Heaven down through his mind. He leant his forehead on his hand, and people, looking in through the open door,—for this scene is supposed to take place on a summer's evening—But how dull this is, this historical fiction! It doesn't interest me at all.

There will be nothing but spaces of light and dark, intersected by thick stalks, and rather higher up perhaps, rose-shaped blots of an indistinct colour—dim pinks and blues—which will, as time goes on, become more definite, become—I don't know what.... And yet that mark on the wall is not a hole at all. It may even be caused by some round black substance, such as a small rose leaf, left over from the summer, and I, not being a very vigilant housekeeper—look at the dust on the mantelpiece, for example, the dust which, so they say, buried Troy three times over, only fragments of pots utterly refusing annihilation, as one can believe.

I can't remember a thing. Everything's moving, falling, slipping, vanishing.... There is a vast upheaval of matter. " "Though it's no good buying newspapers.... Nothing ever happens. Curse this war; God damn this war!... " Ah, the mark on the wall! It was a snail.

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