I last night supped in Mr Walter Scott's. He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on : it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted... The genius and wisdom of sir Walter Scott, comprising moral, religious ... - Seite xvii von sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 204 Seiten Vollansicht -
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