Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.
Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...