Sir Walter Scott Quotes

“The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson, — — from earliest possibility, I suppose, who lived with half the gay world at hack and manger, and now obliges such as will not pay hushmoney with a history of whatever she”
― Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott: Diary, Letters & Articles: Journal, letters, essays, and memoirs on Scottish culture, Romantic literature, and the making of Ivanhoe