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David Laing : [review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Edinburgh Monthly Review]

'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg then complains at Boyd's unwillingness to publish "The Three Perils of Man"] I neither could have expected such an insolent nor such an ignorant review from D. Laing.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

David Laing : [review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'The Mountain Bard'

'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you in the Edin. Quarterly of The Mountain Bard that hindered me to call as I was wont. I thought that article illiberal from a friend and wrong view taken of the Memoir but I am so used to these rubs that I have learned the virtue of forgiveness a good deal; and hereby promise and swear that now when I have told you what I felt that article shall never be mentioned nor thought of more between the writer and me, [italics] whoever he may be [end italics].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

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