OF THE LIFE

OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

[Lockhart, John D. I

VOLUME THE THIRD.

SECOND EDITION.

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CONTENTS

OF VOLUME THIRD.

CHAPTER XVI.

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Dryden Critical Pieces -

Edition of Slingsby's Memoirs,

&c.—Marmion begun - Visit to London-Ellis - Rose

-Canning-Miss Seward-Scott Secretary to the Com-

mission on Scotch Jurisprudence Letters to Southey,

Publication of Marmion -Anecdotes-The Edin-

&c.

burgh Review on Marmion.

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CHAPTER XVII.

.1806-1808,

Edition of Dryden published—and criticised by Mr Hal-

lam Weber's Romances - Editions of Queenhoo-Hall;

Captain Carleton's Memoirs; The Memoirs of Robert

Cary, Earl of Monmouth; The Sadler Papers; and the

Somers' Tracts. -Edition of Swift begun - Letters to

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Joanna Baillie and George Ellis on the affairs of the Pen-

insula John Struthers - James Hogg - Visit of Mr

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Morritt Mr Morritt's Reminiscences of Ashestiel.

Scott's Domestic Life.........

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......1808, 68

CHAPTER XVIII.

Quarrel with Messrs Constable and Hunter-John Ballan-

tyne established as a Bookseller in Edinburgh Scott's

Literary Projects -- The Edinburgh Annual Register, &c.

-Meeting of James Ballantyne and John Murray-Mur-

ray's visit to Ashestiel - Politics - The Peninsular War

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Project of the Quarterly Review - Correspondence

with Ellis, Gifford, Morritt, Southey, Sharpe, &c. –

1808-1809,

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116

CHAPTER XIX.

Case of a Poetical Tailor condemned to death at Edinburgh

His Letters to Scott-Death of Camp-Scott in Lon-

don-Mr Morritt's description of him as

66 a Lion" in

Town Dinner at Mr Sotheby's- Coleridge's Fire, Fa-

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mine, and Slaughter-

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The Quarterly Review started.

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First Visit to Rokeby - The Lady of the Lake begun.

Excursion to the Trossachs and Loch Lomond Letter

on Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers - Death

of Daniel Scott - Correspondence about Mr Canning's

Duel with Lord Castlereagh - Miss Baillie's Family Le-

gend acted at Edinburgh-Theatrical Anecdotes - Kem-

ble-Siddons - Terry - Letter on the Death of Miss

Seward..

...1809-1810,

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177

CHAPTER XX.

Affair of Thomas Scott's Extractorship discussed in the House

Speeches of Lord Lauderdale, Lord Melville,

Lord Holland at the Friday Club -

of the Lady of the Lake.

Versification with Ellis and Canning - The Poem criti-

cised by Jeffrey and Mackintosh - Letters to Southey