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MONTHLY REPOSlfifetY. NEW SERIES, No. LXXI.
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ON THE INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
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Memoirs and characters of Sir Walter Scott have already appeared , as might be expected , in great abundance . In those which we have seen , there has been little or nothing of novelty . Both had been very much anticipated ; the former by himself , in the various biographical facts which either directly or incidentally were communicated to the public by means of the notes appended to the new edition of the Waverley novels ; and the latter , by the articles which , as his productions called them forth , have been contributed , by the ablest critics of the day , to the best of our literary journals . But little was left , therefore , at least little which
could be done on the spur of the moment , either of biographical record , or of critical analysis , for the present occasion . In fact , the only thing to be done was to express the public respect and regret for one who had so long and largely ministered to its enjoyment ; and it was right that this should be done . And we , too , have our grief and gratitude , to which we would give expression , not by repeating details of events with which our readers are , probably , by this time familiar ; nor by affecting to occupy a judgment-seat on which few are qualified to sit ; but simply by stating
the impression on our own minds of the peculiar character of that intellect which is now extinguished , and in whose far-beaming , penetrating , playful , and kindly brightness we rejoiced . A just appreciation is our best tribute to his memory . The distinguishing quality of Scott's mfhd , and the source of his literary power , was the faculty which has been termed conception , that faculty by which the various component parts of a transaction , a character , or a scene , are combined into a whole , which
is distinctly and vividly presented to the mind . Phrenologists , we suppose , would say that he had the organ of constructiveness , it was rather that of re-constructiveness . Had he when a boy been turned into a disarranged armoury , we should have expected to have speedily seen him picking out the corslet here and the greaves there , and fitting the different pieces together , until the perfect form of the antique warrior stood before us , the trophy of his peculiar skill . His forte was description ; and in this , whether
Monthly Reposlfifety. New Series, No. Lxxi.
MONTHLY REPOSlfifetY . NEW SERIES , No . LXXI .
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On The Intellectual Character Of Sir Walter Scott.
ON THE INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/1/
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