Microsoft Word Byron and Scott 1809-1824

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. He loved to be thought awful, mysterious, and gloomy, and sometimes hinted at 
strange causes. I believe the whole to have been the creation and sport of a wild and powerful fancy. In 
170: Scott – who can paint your Christian knight or Saracen, / Serf, Lord, Man: B. seems principally to be 
thinking of Ivanhoe (1819) about which all he able to say elsewhere is that it is good (BLJ VII 113). 
171: Shakespeare and Voltaire – / Of one or both of whom he seems the heir: the Tory Scott would have been 
pleased at the comparison with Shakespeare; less so at that with Voltaire. 
172: That to CHP IV. 

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the same manner he crammed people as it is termed about duels, etc., which never existed, or were 
much exaggerated. 
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What I liked about Byron, besides his boundless genius, was his generosity of spirit as well as 
purse, and his utter contempt of all the affectations of literature, from the school-magisterial stile to the 
lackadaisical.