 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 other people's mouths. — I do not like him, & do not mean to like Waverley...  Lady Susan ; The Watsons - Strona 257autor: Jane Austen - 1892 - Liczba stron: 352Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1885 - Liczba stron: 248
...Jane Austen, edited by Lord Brabourne (London: Bentley), there is the following delightful criticism: "Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...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... | |
 | Oscar Fay Adams - 1891 - Liczba stron: 304
...Waverley," speaking thus confidently concerning it in a letter to her niece, Mrs. Anna Lefroy : — " Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...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... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1898 - Liczba stron: 352
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - 1902 - Liczba stron: 486
...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...ought not to be taking the bread out of other people's mouths."2 So when a woman like Jane Austen deliberately cancels a ' Lady Susan,' and relegates a family... | |
 | Constance Hill - 1902 - Liczba stron: 348
...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...fair. He has fame and profit enough as 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... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1903 - Liczba stron: 356
...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...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... | |
 | John Henry Hubback, Edith Charlotte Hubback - 1906 - Liczba stron: 374
...latest work, even when making a present of it to Charles. In another of her letters she writes : " Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profits enough as a poet, and ought not to be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not... | |
 | William Henry Helm - 1909 - Liczba stron: 272
...first, years before Scott's acknowledgment, we may see in one of Jane's letters of 1814, where she says: "Walter Scott has no business to write novels; •...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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Liczba stron: 850
...daughters who can! — LANG, ANDREW, 1901, New Work on Scott, The Critic, vol. 38, p. 340. WAVERLEY 1814 Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...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... | |
 | William Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh - 1913 - Liczba stron: 658
...such thorough novel slang, and so old that I dare say Adam met with it in the first novel he opened. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially...fair. He has fame and profit enough as 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... | |
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