The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 2: 1804 - 1812

Biography & Memoir, Literary, Historical
Cover of the book The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 2: 1804 - 1812 by John Gibson Lockhart, Jazzybee Verlag
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Author: John Gibson Lockhart ISBN: 9783849645472
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag Publication: August 11, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
ISBN: 9783849645472
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Publication: August 11, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

Biography yields to no other species of composition, in interest and instruction. More especially is this true, when the subjects of which it treats are the struggles and vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuits of literature. There is a pleasure of the purest kind in observing the gradual development of thought and refinement of expression in one, who, smitten with a love of the good and the beautiful, and desirous to leave something behind him less perishable than his tombstone, has "scorned delights and loved laborious days." No one can read these Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, so long and so anxiously expected, without feeling this pleasure, and without deriving from them that instruction which might not be received from the perusal of less interesting works. In our judgment, not the least important lesson which these memoirs teach, is the advantage, or rather the necessity, which there is of having some profession less precarious than that of literature, upon which the child of genius can fall back for comfort or support in the hour when adversity clouds the lights which hope hung up in the uncertain future. This is volume 2 out of 7 of one of the best and most extensive Scott biographies ever and it covers the years 1804 through 1812.

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Biography yields to no other species of composition, in interest and instruction. More especially is this true, when the subjects of which it treats are the struggles and vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuits of literature. There is a pleasure of the purest kind in observing the gradual development of thought and refinement of expression in one, who, smitten with a love of the good and the beautiful, and desirous to leave something behind him less perishable than his tombstone, has "scorned delights and loved laborious days." No one can read these Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, so long and so anxiously expected, without feeling this pleasure, and without deriving from them that instruction which might not be received from the perusal of less interesting works. In our judgment, not the least important lesson which these memoirs teach, is the advantage, or rather the necessity, which there is of having some profession less precarious than that of literature, upon which the child of genius can fall back for comfort or support in the hour when adversity clouds the lights which hope hung up in the uncertain future. This is volume 2 out of 7 of one of the best and most extensive Scott biographies ever and it covers the years 1804 through 1812.

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