 For the critics, they have their business, and I mine; as the nursery proverb goes— "The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.  Waverley Novels: Vol. 7 - Page 14by Walter Scott - 1845 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 778 pages
...in his romantic comedies. Critics might pick the obvious holes, but he was not writing for critics ; too busy in providing food for them to have time for considering whether they would swallow or reject it. "I cannot form a plot" : his people took their own ways, and had to be... | |
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