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Walter Scott
said
The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
— Life of Napoleon (1827); see Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
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- Writers rank#105
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- Fame59.0
- Momentum1.5
- Writers rank#105
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Lived 1771–1832, aged 61United Kingdom
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He built the historical novel as Europe knew it — then watched a continent read nothing else for decades. Scott turned Scotland's past into the template for Romantic fiction, spinning law-clerk precision into bestsellers that made Ivanhoe and Waverley as ordinary as breath.
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Walter Scott was born 15 August 1771 in Scotland and spent his working life as an advocate, Clerk of Session, and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire — law by day, literature by night. His narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his name, but the Waverley novels (1814–1831) made his century: for nearly a hundred years they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe, and they shaped how American and European writers understood historical fiction. He moved through Edinburgh's Tory establishment, presided over the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1820 to 18…
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Walter Scott
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
— Life of Napoleon (1827).
Walter Scott
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
— The Abbot (1820), Ch. 7.
Walter Scott
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
— The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Ch. 3 - Lucy Ashton's Song.
Walter Scott
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There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.
— A Legend of Montrose (1819), Ch. 3.
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Historical25.7
Now attention18.0
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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