 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1847 - 744 pages
...Clarissa;" and Johnson pronouncing Fielding to be " a blockhead" and " a barren rascal," and saying " there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones,"—Erskine objected: " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." He received only this answer,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 528 pages
...Clarissa }" and Johnson pronouncing Fielding to be "a blockhead" and " a barren rascal," and saying " there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones," — Erskine objected : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." He received only this answer, which,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pages
...very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart «s one letter of Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones. 2 ' I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.'"... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...should have believed he was an ostler." (So much the worse, I would ask leave to say, for Richardson.) " Sir, there is more " knowledge of the heart in one...Tom Jones ! I, " indeed, never read Joseph Andrews." ERSKISE. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very "tedious." JOHKSON. "Why, sir, if yon were to read Richardson... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...should have believed he was an ostler." (So much the worse, I would ask leave to say, for Richardson.) " Sir, there is more " knowledge of the heart in one...in all Tom Jones ! I, " indeed, never read Joseph Andrcifs." ERSKISE. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very "tedious." JOHHSON. "Why, sir, if you were to... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - Authors, English - 1855 - 398 pages
...very low life. Richardson used to say that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of...all Tom Jones. I indeed never read Joseph Andrews.' " l /The doctor was also, we are told by the same authority, very fond of quoting with approbation... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1856 - 594 pages
...superficial observer than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the mind. There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all " Tom Jones." ' Johnson, from the violence of his hatred to Fielding, is no authority upon his works. He called him... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Authors, English - 1858 - 434 pages
...very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of...heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones's.' I indeed never read 'Joseph Andrews.' " Erskine. — " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious."... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Authors, English - 1858 - 426 pages
...very low life. Bichardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Eichardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones's.' I indeed never read 'Joseph Andrews.' " Erskine. — " Surely,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...considered as the greatest work of Fielding, yet it has not escaped severe censure. "Sir," said Johneon, "there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones,*" — an opinion, however, HI which few will concur. There ie во novel with winch we we acquainted,... | |
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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. 
