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Excerpt from Scotland and the Waverley Novels
Our poet's first introduction to systematic literature was at the school of Mr. Luckman; his name appears in the registry of the High School, in 1779, when he, with his elder brother, attended the class of Frazer, a sound scholar and disciplinarian, but with less advantage to the pupil than might have been hoped from the possession of such talents. Dr. Adam, his next instructor, deli vered his eloquent and learned lectures to young Walter with more effect, and the benefit of his instruction was always warmly acknowledged by his amiable pupil. Here, again, the legendary propensity of the future romancer developed itself, and, in his Autobiography, he says.
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