| The whole work, far from being dryasdust scholarship, is a rattling good yarn. |
| Jonas Dryasdust, who derives his existence straight from the pages of Scott's earlier novel, The Antiquary, where he was introduced as a learned friend of the eponymous hero. |
| Although Froude was a prodigious worker in original archives, much more so than Freeman in fact, he was no Carlylian Dryasdust. |
