 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 oldal
...Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson replied, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted...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 oldal
...Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson replied, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted...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 oldal
...EKSKINE : 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 that you would hang yourself." Perhaps some rude person, who fails to perceive the true inwardness of Impressionist criticism, will... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 546 oldal
...only this answer, which, I think, is not very satisfactory : "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted...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... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1897 - 326 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
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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. 
