 received several excuses, and the party was a small one ; " and, knowing all the people present, I was satisfied that " the writer of that novel must have been, and could have " been, no other than Walter Scott. " He spoiled the fame of his poetry by...  The Scottish Review - Page 2371894Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 604 pages
...the story nearer to the time of the Revolution. Scott, entirely off his guard, said, ' Ay, I ought to have done so, but,' — there he stopped. It was in...apply himself to something else, and succeed as well." Effect of Oxygen он Clou-Wurms. — It is an interesting experiment (says Mr. Parkes} to place a... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - Poets, English - 1824 - 372 pages
...that " the writer of that novel must have been, and could have " been, no other than Walter Scott. " He spoiled the fame of his poetry by his superior...possesses the dramatic faculty, which is denied me. And " yet I am told that his ' Halidon Hill' did not justify " expectation. I have never met with it,... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 pages
...that the writer of that novel must " have been, and could have been; no " other than Walter Scott. " He spoiled the fame of his poetry " by his superior...prove that " he, at all events, possesses the dramatic x " faculty, which is denied me. And yet " I am told that his ' Halidon Hill' did " not justify expectation.... | |
 | 1824 - 666 pages
...honourable to both. He says of him : " He spoiled the fume of his poetry by hie superior prose, lie by whatever humble velucle inc. And yet I am told that his ' Halidon IIill ' did .not justify expectation. I have never met with... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 314 pages
...satisfied that the writer of that novel must have been, and could have been, no other than Walter Scott. " He spoiled the fame of his poetry by his superior...should his Novels ever tire the public, which is not likelj, he will apply himself to something else, and succeed as well. " His mottoes from old plays... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - England - 1824 - 496 pages
...that the " writer of that novel must have been, and " could have been, no other than Walter " Scott. " He spoiled the fame of his poetry by his " superior prose. He has such extent and ver" satility of powers in writing, that, should his " Novels ever tire the public, which is not t... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1825 - 578 pages
...that the " writer of that novel must have been, and " could have been, no other than Walter " Scott. " He spoiled the fame of his poetry by " his superior...possesses the dramatic " faculty, which is denied me. And yet I " am told that his ' Halidon Hill ' did not " justify expectation. I have never met with... | |
 | Poets, English - 1825 - 418 pages
...of his art. The Fire King, in the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," was almost wholly Lewis's. He spoiled the fame of his poetry by his superior...apply himself to something else, and succeed as well." . Being interrogated whether he was certain that the novels of the Great Unknown were written by Scott... | |
 | Poets, English - 1825 - 422 pages
...of his art. The Fire King, in the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border " was almost wholly Lewis's. He spoiled the fame of his poetry by his superior...not likely, he will apply himself to something else, aiid succeed as well." Being interrogated whether he was certain that the novels of the Great Unknown... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...poetry by his superior prose. Tie has such extent and versatility of powers in writing, that, should hia novels ever tire the public, which is not likely,...succeed as well. " His mottoes from old plays prove that //••, at all events, possesses the dramatic faculty, which is denied me. And yet I am told that... | |
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