Read it through once

“It is impossible to mention poetry without thinking of Walter Scott. It would be equally presumptuous in me either to praise or blame _The Lady of the Lake_; but I should like to have your opinion of that splendid and interesting production. Have you read a poem which is said to have excited the jealousy of our great modern minstrel, _The Fight of Falkirk_?” [by Miss Holford.] “I was delighted with the fire and genius which it displays, and was the more readily charmed, perhaps, as the author is a lady; which is, I hear, what most displeases Mr. Scott.