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Old 01-25-2013, 07:28 PM   #29
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I'm tickled that Kipling sees Sir Walter Scott as coequal to Shakespeare, Fielding and Cervantes; Smollett isn't quite the reach. Great fun.
I read it as being Sir Walter Raleigh, not Sir Walter Scott - who I think would have outlived Jane by quite a bit, wouldn't he?
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