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Scott

The Walter Scott of Belgium. Hendrick Conscience. (Born 1812.)

The Southern Scott.

Lord Byron calls Ariosto the Sir Walter Scott of Italy. (Childe Harold, iv. 40.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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