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10884.... Have you any fancy to dash off an article on''Emma''? 10884 P.S.--Ford''s book not out yet?"
10884Tell me fairly, did you show the MS. to some of your corps?
10884The Opposition? 10884 Was ever"impecunious author"so trusted before"?
10884What are people saying about that fellow Hazlitt attempting to prosecute? 10884 What do you think,"said Mr. Disraeli,"of the''Psychological Memoir''?
10884Who are now the People''s men? 10884 ''I believe you are acquainted with my friend William Gifford?'' 10884 ''Miss Milbanke-- do you know her?'' 10884 ''What is it?'' 10884 ''Who are these?'' 10884 ''Who is the lady who is to do me this injury?'' 10884 ''Why, you would not join against me?'' 10884 : how I took to study and became a_ lav- engro._ What do you think of this for a bill of fare? 10884 ?_ Certainly nothing new; it has not yet invaded the country. 10884 An expostulation came from Croker to Murray( January 23, 1824):Have you made up_ your mind_ about an editor?
10884And how can you continue to destroy every speculation by entering upon new ones before the previous ones are properly completed?...
10884And how could any sort of system or plan be carried on or attempted amongst them?
10884Are there any memoirs about the date of 1743, or later, beside Bubb''s?
10884But should you not see Rogers?
10884But to the question: What are your intentions with respect to"The Bible in Spain"?
10884But what can I say at this distance?
10884But what is to be the end of all this rigmarole of mine?
10884But who are your other foemen?''
10884But why do I trouble you with_ my_ opinions, when I can give you Mr. Scott''s?
10884But_ now_ what can be done?
10884Ca n''t you get a more active and vigilant Editor?
10884Can I not procure you a score of blue- caps who would rather write for us than for the_ Edinburgh Review_ if they got as much pay by it?
10884Can you get me"Gaytoun''s Festivous Notes on Don Quixote"?
10884Could you find out who they are?
10884Could you not get me a gay light article or two?
10884Dinez- vous chez- vous?
10884Do you intend to have any portraits?
10884Do you know any one?
10884Do you know anything about it?"
10884Do you think it impossible?
10884Does he know what that review has done?
10884Does he think to put me down with his_ Canting_, not being able to do it with his poetry?
10884Has anybody put you out of conceit with the book?
10884Has he none then?
10884Has he yet returned from Scotland, and is he at all improved?"
10884Have we not yourself and your cousin, the Roses, Malthus, Matthias, Gifford, Heber, and his brother?
10884Have you come to this passage in''Waverley''yet?
10884Have you determined on a title?
10884Have you, therefore, any objection to advance me a sum on the anticipated profits of the edition, not exceeding two hundred pounds?
10884Here is a long letter-- can you read it?
10884How came you to advertise''Domestic Anecdotes''?
10884How can you imagine that a bookseller can afford to pay eternal advances upon almost every work in which he takes a share with you?
10884How can you, my good sirs, act in this way?
10884How could you give so trite an image as in the last two lines?
10884How do you keep without their reach The watch without your fobby O?"
10884How would you arrange with him?
10884I ask why for?
10884I could not help quizzing Mr. Robert Miller, who asked me in an odd sort of way, as I thought, why it was not out?
10884I have just received an invitation to join the Ethnological Society( who are they?
10884I naturally asked him, was it by the author of"Waverley"?
10884I say why for take so much trouble?
10884I say why he not go inside?
10884I shall have no poem this winter then?''
10884In conversation a few days since, I heard a gentleman ask him,''Pray, sir, do you think the_ Quarterly Review_ will be equal to the_ Edinburgh_?''
10884In his reply Gifford, expostulating,"Why, my dear Sir, will you do these things?"
10884Is 450 guineas too dear for a new barouche?
10884Is his book out?
10884Is not this very possible?
10884It ran to the tune of"My Boy Tammy?
10884It really seems a respectable number, but what then?
10884It wants incident and romance, does it not?
10884Jeffrey is, to be sure, a man of the most uncommon versatility of talent, but what then?
10884Lady Mackintosh also wrote to Mr. Murray:"Did you hear who this_ new_ author of''Waverley''and''Guy Mannering''is?
10884Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion:"Opinion?
10884MY DEAR MURRAY, Can you oblige me by letting me have a third volume of"Wilberforce"?
10884Miller?
10884Murray again wrote to Blackwood( February 15, 1817):"What is your theory as to the author of''Harold the Dauntless''?
10884My DEAR SIR, What can I say in return for your interesting and amusing letter?
10884Now in thy parlour feasting me, Now scribbling at me from your garret,-- Till,''twixt the two, in doubt I be, Which sourest is, thy wit or claret?
10884Or, wo n''t something about the ancient North and its literature be more acceptable?
10884Pray is it yet to be purchased?
10884Says he,''Can you keep a secret?''
10884Shall I appoint the consultation?
10884Shall I get it appointed as soon as he comes to town?
10884Suppose you were to sew, etc., your own publications?
10884Their cuisine is bad, and their port wine execrable, and as for their cigars!--I say, do you remember those precious ones of the Sanctuary?
10884Then can your Lordship tell me the reason why the Opposition are so unpopular in England?"
10884Thus the Chevalier is Sir Walter Scott; M. is Mr. Lockhart; X. is Mr. Canning; O. is the political Puck( could this be himself?
10884What can have happened to you that you will not write?
10884What can it be?
10884What can you afford to give me for the exclusive right of printing them in France upon condition that you receive them before any other bookseller?
10884What do you think of making a confidant of Wilmot H[orton]?
10884What has moved Miller to retire?
10884What interest can Lord Byron have in being the poet of a party in politics?...
10884What resemblance do ye find among all or any of these men?
10884What shape will you adopt?
10884What think you of"A Cure for the Ministerial Gallomania,"and advertise, dedicated to Lord Grey?
10884What will they be when that of Dryden appears?"
10884What would the Institution expect me to write?
10884When will the next come?
10884Where is the bravery of treading on a worm or crushing a poor fly?
10884Where the honour?"
10884Where the utility?
10884Who are the_ Quarterly Reviewers_?
10884Who is the author of the review of"Childe Harold"in the_ Quarterly_?
10884Who?
10884Why for take so much trouble?
10884Why not go on with and complete the series of De Foe?...
10884Why this delay?
10884Why will your young friend fling away talent which might so honourably distinguish him?
10884Why, with your influence, will you not urge the completion of the''Minstrelsy''?
10884Will not this affect his mind and purify his pen?
10884Will you be so kind as to write me in answer what you think of this proposal?
10884Will you dine at Kensington on Sunday at 6?"
10884Will you do this?
10884Will you have the goodness to return an answer in course of post, as, failing your benevolent aid, I must look about elsewhere?
10884Would that suit you?
10884Would you like to divide your work in_ Shares_?
10884_ Nelson_:''Well, Jack, what''s the matter with you?''
10884a prig, Sir?''
10884and must I close the list With thee, my Lockhart of the_ Quarterly?_ So kind, with bumper in thy fist,-- With pen, so very gruff and tartarly.
10884are you too a brother Cyclops?"
10884my old enemy, how do you do?"