Austen 与Scott 处在同一时代，但创作风格相差迥异。而...

Austen 与Scott 处在同一时代，但创作风格相差迥异。而且他们都为对方写过评论，但一生从未相见。以下选取两则评论。结合你的文学知识和生活经验，你认为如果二人相见。他们会成为好朋友吗？或者相爱吗？ Scott’s journal entry for September 18, 1827, has the following reference to Austen: September 18.–Wrote five pages of the _Tales_. Walked from Huntly Burn, having gone in the carriage. Smoked my cigar with Lockhart after dinner, and then whiled away the evening over one of Miss Austen’s novels. There is a truth of painting in her writings which always delights me. They do not, it is true, get above the middle classes of society, but there she is inimitable. And this is Austen’s famous comment on Scott: Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. –It is not fair. –He has Fame & Profit enough as a Poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. –I do not like him, & do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it –but fear I must…