 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 422 pàgines
...her broken English, " Well, good night Mr. Jeffrey, dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Eeview, and I hope Mr. Constable has paid you very well for writing it." Scott's literary engagements were now numerous, and he daily received propositions from publishers... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pàgines
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pàgines
...as he was leaving, the hostess of the house said, " Well, good night, Mr Jeffrey ; dey tell me yon have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it!" This critique prodnced important consequences. It cnt the tie between Scott and the Edinbnrgh Review,... | |
 | REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN - 1870 - 414 pàgines
...hostess of the house said, ' Well, good night, Mr. Jeffrey: dey tell me you have abused Scott in the Review, and I hope Mr. Constable has paid you very well for writing it.' She never spoke to him again. The critique in some points was unfair. It asserted, for example, that... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1870 - 414 pàgines
...hostess of the house said, ' Well, good night, Mr. Jeffrey : dey tell me you have abused Scott in the Review, and I hope Mr. Constable has paid you very well for writing it.' She never spoke to him again. The critique in some points was unfair. It asserted, for example, that... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 pàgines
...saying in her broken English, when her guest was departing, ' Well, goodnight, Mr. Jeffrey. Dey tell me you have abused Scott in de " Review ; " and I hope...Constable has paid you very well for writing it.' " The result, however, was, that Scott ceased to contribute to " The Edinburgh Review ; " and his personal... | |
 | REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, DUNDEE - 1871 - 424 pàgines
...hostess of the house said, ' Well, good night, Mr. Jeffrey : dey tell me you have abused Scott in the Review, and I hope Mr. Constable has paid you very well for writing it.' She never spoke to him again. The critique in some points was unfair. It asserted, for example, that... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pàgines
...broken English, — " Well, good night, Mr. Jeffrey, dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Review, I hope Mr. Constable has paid you very well for writing it." Scott's connection with the Edinburgh Review was now broken off. He remonstrated, however, against... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1878 - 202 pàgines
...his leave, — " Well, good night, Mr. Jeffrey, — dey tell me you have abused Scott in de Eeview, and I hope Mr. Constable has paid you very well for...his strong sense and sure self-measurement ever was. Mr. Lockhart records that Mrs. Grant of Laggan once said of them, " Mr. Scott always seems to me like... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1879 - 206 pàgines
...politeness, but fired this parting shot in her broken English, as he took his leave, — "Well, good night, Mr. Jeffrey, — dey tell mo you have abused Scott...his strong sense and sure self-measurement ever was. Mr. Lockhart records that Mrs. Grant of Laggan once said of them, " Mr. Scott always seems to me like... | |
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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. 
