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Quotes about Italy: Sir Walter Scott on Rome

By Julia Shuvalova

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June 10, 2011 11:00 am

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish writer.

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Julia Shuvalova

Julia Shuvalova is the author of Los Cuadernos de Julia blog. She is a historian, an author of several books, and a translator. She teaches Foreign Languages and Creative Writing and regularly speaks on the topics in History and Teaching for the Russian media. She lives and works in Moscow, Russia.

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David L Macaulay
June 11, 2011 at 11:20 pm

always good to stumble on your blog now and again as it's so brilliantly highbrow.

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Julie Delvaux
June 12, 2011 at 6:46 pm

thank you David! I like “brilliantly” – but how good is “highbrow”? :-)))) I mean: I wanted the blog to be less serious that it was occasionally, so I wonder if, or how, I am succeeding.

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