A male Horace Walpole. - John Gibson Lockhart

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A male Horace Walpole.

John Gibson Lockhart

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About John Gibson Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart (July 12, 1794 – November 25, 1854) was a Scottish biographer, literary critic, novelist and journalist, best known for his biography of his father-in-law, Walter Scott.

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Alternative Names: J. G. Lockhart • J G. Lockhart • J.G Lockhart • J. G Lockhart • JG Lockhart • J G Lockhart

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Walter Scott William Cowper Alexander Pope John Dryden Robert Graves

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Lockhart's Life of Walter Scott may be said to be the most admirable biography in the English language, after Boswell's Samuel Johnson.

It is an old belief
That on some solemn shore
Beyond the sphere of grief
Dear friends shall meet once more.

It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr. John, back to "plasters, pills, and ointment boxes," &c. But, for Heaven's sake, young Sangrado, be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics in your practice than you have been in your poetry.