 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - 1871 - 396 pagina’s
...literary world, she should even then have spoken so confidently of his being the author of it : — ' Walter Scott has no business to write novels ; especially...fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and ought not to be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not mean to like " Waverley," if... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 396 pagina’s
...literary world, she should even then have spoken so confidently of his being the author of it : — ' Walter Scott has no business to write novels ; especially...fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and ought not to be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not mean to like " Waverley," if... | |
 | Oscar Fay Adams - 1891 - 304 pagina’s
...Waverley," speaking thus confidently concerning it in a letter to her niece, Mrs. Anna Lefroy : — " Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...like ' Waverley ' if I can help it, but fear I must. " I am quite determined, however, not to be pleased with Mrs. West's 'Alicia De Lacy,' should I ever... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 368 pagina’s
...literary world, she should even then have spoken so confidently of his being the author of it: — "Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and ought not to be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not mean to like 'Waverley,' if... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 702 pagina’s
...literary world, she should even then have spoken so confidently of his being the author of it : — "Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, aud ought not to be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not mean to like 'Waverley,'... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1898 - 352 pagina’s
...the name of Progillian. That is a source of delight which even he can hardly be quite competent to. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...like "Waverley" if I can help it, but fear I must. I am quite determined, however, not to be pleased with Mrs. West's " Alicia De Lacy," should lever... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1899 - 372 pagina’s
...literary world, she should even then have spoken so confidently of his being the author of it : — "Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and ought not to be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not mean to like ' Waverley,' if... | |
 | Constance Hill - 1902 - 348 pagina’s
...of July of this same year (1814), and Miss Austen writes to her niece in the following September : " Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like ' Waverley ' if I can help it —... | |
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - 1902 - 486 pagina’s
...novel he opened." 1 She guessed that 'VVaverley ' was written by Scott before the secret was out: " Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...fair. He has fame and profit enough as. a poet, and ought not to be taking the bread out of other people's mouths."2 So when a woman like Jane Austen deliberately... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1903 - 356 pagina’s
...Progillian. That is a source of delight which even he can hardly be quite competent to. Walter Scott has 110 business to write novels, especially good ones. It...like "Waverley" if I can help it, but fear I must. I am quite determined, however, not to be pleased with Mrs. West's "Alicia De Lacy," should I ever... | |
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people. I do not like him, and do not mean to like " Waverley "... 
