Critical and Miscellaneous Essays of Sir Walter Sc - Livres de poche

Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. 3

In the mean time, we must not altogether forget the works of which the titles are prefixed to this article. This, to be sure, is a fashion with our caste, from which we do not pretend altogether to exculpate ourselves. If we admit not a fair and impartial division betwixt the reviewers and the reviewed, the neglected authors have a right to share the impatience of the witty Charles Townsend. When he came to Scotland, after having married a lady of that nation'of the very highest rank, large fortune, and ex tensive connections, the tide of relations, friends, and vas sals, who thronged to welcome the bride, were so negligent of her husband as to leave him in the hall while they hur ried his lady forwards into the state apartments, until he checked their haste by exclaiming, for Heaven's sake, gentlemen, consider I am, at least, Prince George of Den mark. Messrs. Kelly and Boaden would have the same reason to complain of us, should we altogether forget them in an article which we have decorated with their names. But they must wait at the bottom of the stairs, with gentle patience, for five minutes longer: we will Show them up presently.

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