 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...—• HONOURABLE THOMAS ERSKINE : " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious."—JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment" The question was started one evening, whether people who differed on some essential point could live... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1874 - 410 pages
...the following reply to Thomas Brskine, who had remarked that that novelist was tedious. " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I should be very sorry, indeed, gentle reader, and should never forgive myself, if my clumsy management... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...read ' Joseph Andrews.' " ERSKINE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.'' — I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1874 - 314 pages
...the follow~ ing reply to Thomas Erskine, who had remarked that that novelist was tedious. " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I should be very sorry, indeed, gentle reader, and should never forgive myself, if my clumsy management... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 pages
...— HONOURABLE THOMAS ERSKINE : " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." — JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." The question was started one evening, whether people who differed on some essential point could live... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1874 - 502 pages
...Erskine, who had remarked that that novelist was tedious. " Why, sir, if you were to read Eichardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted,...yourself; but you must read him for the sentiment, arid consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I should be very sorry, indeed,... | |
 | John Forster - 1877 - 468 pages
...never read Joseph A ndmes? ERSKINE : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON : " Why, sir, if you were to read " Richardson for the story, your...yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment." Bosirell, iii. 207, 208. (For an exception he would occasionally make in favour of Amelia, see Mrs.... | |
 | John Morley - 1878 - 500 pages
...true criticism to someone who complained to him that Richardson is tedious. " Why, sir," he said, " if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much frighted that you would hang your- j self. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...Some one present here mildly suggested that Richardson was very tedious. "Why, sir," replied Johnson, "if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so great that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 pages
..." Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much frighted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion to the sentiment." Nowadays, however, instead of laying violent hands upon... | |
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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. 
