Dominie Sampson
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Dominie Sampson is a schoolmaster in Scott
's Guy Mannering
, "a poor, modest, humble scholar, who had won his way through the classics, but fallen to the leeward in the voyage of life."
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time....
's Guy Mannering
Guy Mannering
Guy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting...
, "a poor, modest, humble scholar, who had won his way through the classics, but fallen to the leeward in the voyage of life."