N'importe
. As Sharpe was passing by the doors of some debating society (the Westminster Forum), in his way to dinner, he saw rubricked on the wall
Scott's
name and
mine
—"Which the best poet?" being the question of the evening; and I suppose all the Templars and
would-bes
took our rhymes in vain in the course of the controversy. Which had the greater show of hands, I neither know nor care; but I feel the coupling of the names as a compliment—though I think Scott deserves better company.
Wedderburn Webster called—Lord Erskine, Lord Holland, etc., etc. Wrote to ——
The Corsair