Sir Walter Scott, in the novel of Fortunes of Nigel, has described, under the name of…

I am Sir Walter Scott, and have been delineated in my own novel of Quentin Durward, under the name of Quentin Durward, in so far as concerns personal interest, for I am concerned…

I am a spirit that has left the body, And hover o'er the earth, Where the scenes of my former life are passed in review.