Oh!what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive! A Palmer too!No wonder why I felt rebuked beneathhis eye.[12] In 1809,Scott persuaded James Ballantyne and his brotherto move to Edinburgh and to establish their printing press there. He became a partner in their business.Asa political conservative and advocate ofthe Union with England,Scott helped to found the Tory Quarterly Review,a review journal to which he made several anonymous contributions. In 1813 Scott was offered the position of Poet Laureate.He declined,and the position went to Robert Southey.[13] III.Characteristic of his novels Scott created and popularized historical novels in a series 10 called the Waverley Novels In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters so the reader enters into the lives of both great and ordinary people caught up in violent,dramatic changes in history. Scott's first wholly original publication was the ballad epic "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"(1805),which was an Oh! what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive! A Palmer too! No wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye.[12] In 1809, Scott persuaded James Ballantyne and his brother to move to Edinburgh and to establish their printing press there. He became a partner in their business. As a political conservative and advocate of the Union with England, Scott helped to found the ToryQuarterly Review, a review journal to which he made several anonymous contributions. In 1813 Scott was offered the position of Poet Laureate. He declined, and the position went to Robert Southey.[13] III. Characteristic of his novels Scott created and popularized historical novels in a series called the Waverley Novels. In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters so the reader enters into the lives of both great and ordinary people caught up in violent, dramatic changes in history. Scott's first wholly original publication was the ballad epic “The Lay of the Last Minstrel”(1805), which was an 10’