| Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 542 oldal
..."if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so great that you would hane; yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." But if Richardson is tedious, Johnson was nothing if not prejudiced ; though, after all, he has no... | |
| Elinor S. Shaffer, Elinor Shaffer - 1979 - 364 oldal
...Richardson's relentless analysis of human motives and Dr Johnson's saying that 'if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself'.16 Even this passage seems meagre in its praise of 'fineness of observation ' in Balzac.... | |
| Harry E. Shaw - 1983 - 276 oldal
...demands. Realizing that anyone who read Richardson for the story would hang himself, he suggested that we read him "for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." Johnson's remarks reveal an interest in the function and hierarchy of the parts that constitute artistic... | |
| Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - 1983 - 296 oldal
...Sentiment of Gratitude i. If one were to read Richardson for the story, Samuel Johnson warned in 1772, 'your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. In hopes of averting such drastic consequences, Johnson therefore suggested that the tales of his one-time... | |
| Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 oldal
...and criminals. 8 Boswell's Life of Johnson, 6 April 1772: 'Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself.' 9 Scott, 'Samuel Richardson'; in Lives of the Novelists (1825). 10 Isaac Disraeli called Richardson... | |
| Steven Starker - 1989 - 226 oldal
...plot was less than challenging, as noted by Samuel Johnson: "Why Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted...yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment." Considered by some to be the first "true" novel, Pamela is primarily a novel of character. Substituting... | |
| Ann Jessie van Sant - 2004 - 168 oldal
...narrative would destroy," his meaning is probably quite different from Johnson's in regard to Richardson: "[Y]ou must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment."i6 One does not indulge in this sort of sentiment. Both sentiment and rhetorical effect... | |
| Jeffrey N. Cox, Larry J. Reynolds, Larry John Reynolds - 1993 - 360 oldal
..."story," in an uneasy echo of Samuel Johnson's often ((noted remark that "if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself." Typically, such critics have also affirmed the judgment of Sir Walter Scott, who in 1824 wrote that... | |
| Joseph F. Bartolomeo - 1994 - 228 oldal
...certainly have offended a writer as sensitive as Richardson: "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." 163 Amelia, on the other hand, both satisfied Johnson's moral demands for fiction and accomplished... | |
| Lois E. Bueler - 1994 - 194 oldal
...novel appeared, may reflect the emphasis of fond familiarity: "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." 1 Nevertheless, the evidence of Richardson's readers, then and now, belies him. What is happening among... | |
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