Mr.Carlyle, who, as I have said before, places Scott's romances far below their real level, maintains that these great types of his are drawn from the outside, and not made actually to live.

"His Bailie Jarvies, Dinmonts, Dalgettys (for their name is legion), do look and talk like what they give themselves out for; they are, if not _created_ and made poetically alive, yet deceptively _enacted_ as a good player might do them.

What more is wanted, then?
For the reader lying on a sofa, nothing more; yet for another sort of reader much.

It were a long chapter to unfold the difference in drawing a character between a Scott and a Shakespeare or Goethe.

Yet it is a difference literally immense; they are of a different species; the value of the one is not to be counted in the coin of the other.