Excerpt from Little Jehan De Saintre and of the Lady of the Fair Cousins: Without Being Any Otherwise Named If I Spoke, a moment ago, of Saintre' hang the Waver ley, and even more than the Waverley of a comparatively unlettered age, I must be understood to have been Insti tuting a comparison simply between the originality, not the literary pretensions of the two works. That Scott was greatly struck with Saintre' more so, perhaps, than he was altogether aware of at the time, is evident. I think it will be very hard for any ...
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Excerpt from Little Jehan De Saintre and of the Lady of the Fair Cousins: Without Being Any Otherwise Named If I Spoke, a moment ago, of Saintre' hang the Waver ley, and even more than the Waverley of a comparatively unlettered age, I must be understood to have been Insti tuting a comparison simply between the originality, not the literary pretensions of the two works. That Scott was greatly struck with Saintre' more so, perhaps, than he was altogether aware of at the time, is evident. I think it will be very hard for any observant reader of our work, to resist the conclusion, that it was to it that he was indebted for the first hint of the general outline of the plan of the Waverley novel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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