 | 1888 - 646 pages
...the observation made by Dr. Johnson upon a greater than Sarah Fielding. "Why, sir," said the Doctor, "if you were to read Richardson for the story your...be so much fretted that you would hang yourself." Miss Fielding is not, indeed, as long-winded as her admired friend Richardson (it is only the immortals... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 pages
...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....refrain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's excssive and unaccountble depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced. " Tom... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...letter of Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones.' f I» indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews."' EKSKINE: " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON...Johnson's excessive and unaccountable depreciation of one ofthebest writers that England has produced: "Tom Jones" has stood the test of public opinion with... | |
 | 1891 - 938 pages
...of ivory to receive the marks of his brush. And when we recollect Dr. Johnson's blunt criticism, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...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 pages
...enemies are present ' ( lîoswell), iii. 385 ; ' The boys would throw stones at him,' ii. 222. STORY. ' If you were to read Richardson for the story your...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 pages
...the famous Lord Chancellor, objected : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson replied, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...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 pages
...the famous Lord Chancellor, objected: " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson replied, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...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 pages
...If any one asks why, let him be answered by this scrap of dialogue reported by Boswell : " EKSKINE : Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious? JOHNSON :...be so much fretted that you would hang yourself." Perhaps some rude person, who fails to perceive the true inwardness of Impressionist criticism, will... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 322 pages
...more events than he has read through by the time he comes to the end of it. As Johnson again said, " If you were to read Richardson for the story, your...read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion to the sentiment." There remains to be considered the feature of Richardson's... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 476 pages
...Richardson is very tedious." He received only this answer, which, I think, is not very satisfactory : " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...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. 
