id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 54980 Olcott, Charles S. (Charles Sumner) The Country of Sir Walter Scott .txt text/plain 119401 5996 74 little old-fashioned villages, the ruined castles and abbeys, all Scott was thirty-four years old when the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel' So great was Scott's love of the picturesque and especially of the old Church, where Colonel Mannering heard a sermon by Scott's old friend, he heard the history of Doune Castle, a fine old ruin on the river later years, were not by any means the chief business of Scott's life But Walter Scott was a young man, and in his great big heart there was since been known as 'Ellen's Isle.' The oak, old in Scott's day, is The castle was built of the stones of the old Roman wall which passes The castle was a ruin in Scott's day, presenting an appearance very It was characteristic of Scott, not only that every old ruined castle The old castle looked more like a prison than a king's palace, and ./cache/54980.txt ./txt/54980.txt