 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1897 - 530 pages
...Johnson's Lettersto Mrs.Thrale.' M1ss REYNOLDS. 'The lady was Miss Cotterell.' Letters, i. 43. 3 ' Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's tfia.n\1\a.\\Tom Jones.' Life,\\.\T &,. See also ante, ii. 190, and Letters, i. 21. 4 At Edinburgh... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...very low life. Richardson used to say that, had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed Q " * It must not be presumed that Dr Johnson meant to give any Countenance to licentiousness, though in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 280 pages
...have believed he was an ostler.' " (So much the worse, I would ask leave to say, tor Richardson.) " ' Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter...all Tom Jones! I, indeed, never read Joseph Andrews' EKSKINE : ' Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious.' JOHNSON : ' Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 414 pages
...that he draws very natural pictures of human life?' JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, it is of very low life. . . . Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones.'" — Boswell's Johnson, ed. Hill, II, 199. 338. 25. — Gibbon wrote of him. This passage appears in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 410 pages
...he draws very natural pictures of human life ? ' JOHNSON. ' Why, Sir, it is of very low life. . . . Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jenes.'" — BosweU's Johnson, ed. Hill, II, 199. 238. 25. — Gibbon wrote of him. This passage appears... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 448 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 Jonea.1 I, indeed, never read Joseph Andrews.' ERSKINE: 'Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious.'... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1901 - 500 pages
...letter of Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones.' " I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.' " EBSKINE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON....if you were to read Richardson for the story, your patience •would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1901 - 376 pages
...indicates fully the subjectmatter and the exclusive aim of the avowed realist. " Sir," said Dr. Johnson, " there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones.'" EHSKINE : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JonxSON : " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - Authors, English - 1902 - 574 pages
...observer than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart." " There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones." 2 Johnson, from the violence of his hatred to Fielding, is no authority upon 1 [English Humorists,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 368 pages
...should have believed he was an ostler." (So much the worse, I would aak leave to say, for Richardson.) "Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one...Tom Jones ! I, indeed, never read Joseph Andrews." EKSKINE : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON : " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson... | |
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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. 
