If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

She was stronger alone.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.