 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.  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Страница 193по James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 560 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 436 страници
..." Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." Johnson. — " Why, sir, if you were to read Bichardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted...sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion 'i to the sentiment." If the suffrages of Richardson's readers were at this time i taken on his novels,... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 страници
...Erskine remarked to him, as well he might, " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious/' Johnson answered, "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." If the tediousness of the story would induce a reader to hang himself, I do not think that the sentiment,... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 страници
...remarked to him, as well he might, " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson answered, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." If the tediousness of the story would induce a reader to hang himself, I do not think that the sentiment,... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 страници
...remarked to him, as well he might, " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson answered, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." If the tedionsness of the story would induce a reader to hang himself, I do not think that the sentiment,... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 страници
...remarked to him, as well he might, " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson answered, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." If the tediousness of the story would induce a reader to hang himself, I do not think that the sentiment,... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 страници
...than in all 'Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.' — HONOURABLE THOMAS ERSKINE : " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." — JOHNSON...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." The question was started one evening, whether people who differed on some essential point could live... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1874 - 410 страници
...Richardson, gave the following reply to Thomas Brskine, who had remarked that that novelist was tedious. " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I should be very sorry, indeed, gentle reader, and should never forgive myself, if my clumsy management... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1874 - 314 страници
...Richardson, gave the follow~ ing reply to Thomas Erskine, who had remarked that that novelist was tedious. " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I should be very sorry, indeed, gentle reader, and should never forgive myself, if my clumsy management... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 страници
...Andrews.' —• HONOURABLE THOMAS 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" The question was started one evening, whether people who differed on some essential point could live... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 страници
...'Joseph Andrews.'—HONOURABLE THOMAS 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." The question was started one evening, whether people who differed on some essential point could live... | |
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