To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.