[DOC] [TLE] Commentary: William Hazlitt on Sir Walter Scott [PAR] William Hazlitt, "Sir Walter Scott" The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits (
1825) 131-56. .... "It is plain," said the unconscious author to his fellow-labourer, "
that you and I need never .... comic spirit of Peveril of the Peak  and the fine old 
English romance of Ivanhoe. ... His worst is better than any other person's best. [DOC] [TLE] Scots Literature |     16/2008 [PAR] Many of his books, including his most famous, Ivanhoe, take place in England. 
Scott proved better at business than many authors, and wrote his way out of his 
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This is my own, my native land! ... But I must say to the Muse of fiction, as the Earl 
of Pembroke said to the ejected nun of Wilton, 'Go ... Ivanhoe (1819) ..... William 
Hazlitt His worst is better than any other person's best. ---William Hazlitt. Authors 
S. [DOC] [TLE] The Spirit of the AgeContemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William, 1778 ... [PAR] The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Spirit of the Age, by William Hazlitt This 
eBook is for the use ... He once, indeed, stuck up a hand-bill to say that he (
Jeremy Bentham) being of sound ... To shew how little the refinements of taste or 
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Political ..... My father/ 7 said Hazlitt, " would far sooner I had preached a good 
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prose writers. ...... of Nigel, and the comic spirit of Peveril of the Peakand the 
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..... In no other English writer is this rich sentiment of the past so eloquent, and no 
one .... one who "says things that are his own in a way of his own,"[29] whereas 
after ...... His worst is better than any other person's best. ...... See "Ivanhoe," chap. [DOC] [TLE] Walter Scott: The Critical Heritage - Nav view search [PAR] author's reception to what we have come to identify as the critical tradition. ..... 
himself had something to say on the subject of historical novels in the. Quarterly (
No. ... Ivanhoe (1820), the next of the Waverley novels, was a success with the 
critics as .... William Hazlitt, the radical essayist and critic, had

Question: William Hazlitt said of this "Ivanhoe" author, "His worst is better than any other person's best"
Answer: (Sir Walter) Scott