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"' Dryasdust "'was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels; thereafter, a personalities involved.
He's not the dryasdust type; he offers us sex, violence, duplicity and a worldly acceptance of the varieties of human behavior _ there's an unpretentious lightness of touch in everything.
Dryasdust is mentioned in a whole introductory chapter of Thomas Carlyle s " Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches ", this chapter being entitled Anti-Dryasdust . It is continually referenced, as Carlyle depicts history being surrendered to Dryasdust.
Dryasdust is mentioned in a whole introductory chapter of Thomas Carlyle s " Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches ", this chapter being entitled Anti-Dryasdust . It is continually referenced, as Carlyle depicts history being surrendered to Dryasdust.
His 1819 work " Ivanhoe " is prefixed by a Dedicatory Epistle from the fictional character Laurence Templeton to his friend Dr . Jonas Dryasdust, mentioned in " The Antiquary " as a correspondent of Oldbuck's, in which Scott has Templeton point out that a historical novel might not suit the severer genius of our friend Mr . Oldbuck.