 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1897 - 326 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 416 páginas
...entanglement, and we might say, as Johnson did about Richardson, "Why, sir, if you were to read it for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself." We must not read these works for " the story." We cannot believe in Arthur Gride, and all the intrigues... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...subtle distinction between occasional and habitual transgression. 171 if you were to read Richardson O 7 r X4m \ r d r0 2 = e 8S L r 4 U "d b- (p } — I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 páginas
...ERSKINE. " 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,...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 páginas
...: ' 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...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.... | |
 | 1900 - 532 páginas
...entanglement, and we might say, as Johnson did about Richardson, "Why, sir, if you were to read it for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself." We must not read these works for "the story." We cannot believe in Arthur Gride, and all the intrigues... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 500 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1901 - 376 páginas
...: " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JonxSON : " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would 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... | |
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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. 
