 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 páginas
...Richardson 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....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 - 1890 - 568 páginas
...EKSKINE: " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson N, FOR — I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder... | |
 | 1891 - 938 páginas
...brush. And when we recollect Dr. Johnson's blunt criticism, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself," we feel that it would indeed be difficult for the masters of modern realistic fiction to improve upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 412 páginas
...iii. 385 ; ' The boys would throw stones at him,' ii. 222. STORY. ' If you were to read Richardson for the story your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself,' ii. 200-1. STORY-TELLER. 'I told the circumstance first for my own amusement, but I will not be dragged... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 páginas
...Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson replied, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." Lord Chesterfield, " the undisputed sovereign of wit and fashion," said of him : " To do him justice... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 páginas
...Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson replied, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." Lord Chesterfield, " the undisputed sovereign of wit and fashion," said of him : " To do him justice... | |
 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1892 - 284 páginas
...EKSKINE : Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious? JOHNSON : Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself." Perhaps some rude person, who fails to perceive the true inwardness of Impressionist criticism, will... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 282 páginas
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 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 546 páginas
...only this answer, which, I think, is not very satisfactory : "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." Various conjectures have been made by Erskine's biographers as to the motives which led him to adopt... | |
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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. 
