 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 páginas
...were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much frighted that you would hang 1 yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion to the sentiment." Nowadays, however, instead of laying violent hands upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 páginas
...I, indeed, never read Joseph Andrews." ERSKINE. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON. "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." A book of travels published under the title of Coriat Junior being mentioned, Johnson said it was in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 páginas
...was impaired. — Croker. drews.1 " ERSKTNE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I have already given my opinion of Fielding; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder at... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 páginas
...understanding was impaired.—Croker. drews.'" ERSKINE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I have already given my opinion of Fielding; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder at... | |
 | 1884 - 864 páginas
...of them complained to Johnson that he found Richardson very tedious. " Why, sir," Johnson answered, "if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." He used to say of " Clarissa" that "it was the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays... | |
 | John Morley - 1884 - 498 páginas
...true criticism to someone who complained to him that Richardson is tedious. " Why, sir," he said, " if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much frighted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 492 páginas
...indeed, never read ' Joseph Andrews.' " 2 ERSKINE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." — I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 páginas
...author, had an extravagantly hi'_'h opinion of Richardson's novels, was compelled to own that '' Were you to read Richardson for the story, your impatience...be so much fretted that you would hang yourself." " You must read him for the sentiment," he went on to say, "and consider the story only as giving occasion... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 500 páginas
...April 12, 1776. Shenstone (Works, iii. 70) writes of Ac..at. e3.] 175 is very tedious.' JOHNSON. ' Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.' — I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 674 páginas
...in his reply to the observation of the Honourable Thomas Erskine, that Richardson was tedious. — " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion to the sentiment." Were we to translate the controversy into plain language,... | |
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Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment. 
