| Literature - 1837 - 598 pages
...in her broken English, when her guest was departing, " Well, good night, Mr. Jeffrey—dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr. Constable has paid you very well for writing it." This anecdote was not perhaps worth giving; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...in her broken English, when her guest was departing, " Well, good night, Mr Jeffrey — dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it." This anecdote was not perhaps worth giving ; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 426 pages
...in her broken English, when her guest was departing, " Well, good night, Mr Jeffrey — dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it." This anecdote was not perhaps worth giving ; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1845 - 836 pages
...was departing, " Well, good-night, Mr Jeffrey — dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, und I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it." This anecdote was not perhaps worth giving ; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 pages
...her broken English, when her guest was departing, " Well, good-night, Mr Jeffrey — dey tell me that you have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it." This anecdote was not perhaps worth giving ; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape,... | |
| 1850 - 532 pages
...saying in her broken English, when her guest was departing, ' Well, good-night, Mr Jeffrey ; dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you well for writing it.' Mr Willison, the early printer of the Review, in sending one of the proofs to... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1850 - 868 pages
...her guest was departing, " Well, good-night, Mr Jeffrey — dey tell me ynu have abused Seott in do Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it," This anecdote was not jKrhaps worth giving ; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...guest was departing, " Well, good-night, Mr Jeffrey—dey tell me that you have abused Scott in du Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it." This aneedote was not perhaps worth giving; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 pages
...when, as he was leaving, the hostess of the house said, " Well, good night, Mr Jeffrey ; dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it !" This critique produced important consequences. It cut the tie between Scott and the Edinburgh Review,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...when, as he was leaving, the hostess of the house said, " Well, good night, Mr Jeffrey ; dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it ! " This critique produced important consequences. It cut the tie between Scott and the Edinburgh Review,... | |
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