 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1897 - 326 Seiten
...you were to read Richardson for the story," said Johnson, and the remark is as true as it is famous, "your impatience would be so much fretted that you...read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion for the sentiment,"— y testimony, and contemporary testimony too, that the... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1897 - 326 Seiten
...you were to read Richardson for the story," said Johnson, and the remark is as true as it is famous, "your impatience would be so much fretted that you...read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion for the sentiment," — testimony, and contemporary testimony too, that the... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1897 - 324 Seiten
...you were to read Richardson for the story," said Johnson, and the remark is as true as it is famous, "your impatience would be so much fretted that you...read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion for the sentiment," — testimony, and contemporary testimony too, that the... | |
 | Joseph Texte - 1899 - 444 Seiten
...novelist/ afterwards. " Why, sir," wrote Johnson to Erskine, who condemned Richardson for being tedious, " if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion to the sentiment." l Now "the sentiment," here, means chiefly the moral sentiment.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 Seiten
...letter of Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read ' Joseph Andrews.' " ERSKINE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON....consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.1' — I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 280 Seiten
...one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones! I, indeed, never read Joseph Andrews' EKSKINE : ' Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious.' JOHNSON...yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment.'" — Boswell, iii. 207-208. (For an exception he would occasionally make in favor of Amelia, see Mrs.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 502 Seiten
...is very tedious." JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your patience •would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself....refrain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's excssive and unaccountble depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced. " Tom... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1901 - 376 Seiten
...Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones.'" EHSKINE : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JonxSON : " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...be so much fretted that you would hang yourself." The Doctor's remarks, as usual, are worth serious reflection. Fielding was a novelist of manners; in... | |
 | Eduard Engel - 1902 - 516 Seiten
...women. The outspoken Samuel Johnson pronounced a striking verdict on the insipidity of his novels : " If you were to read Richardson for the story your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." Richardson's Pamela, in spite of the sentimental admiration with which it was received, stirred up... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1902 - 232 Seiten
...to Erskine when he complained that the author of Clarissa was very tedious. " Why, Sir," he said, " if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." The Postscript, it will be observed, makes no reference to certain other objections to what one of... | |
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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. 
