Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

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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