 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1892 - 284 pages
...dialogue reported by Boswell : " EKSKINE : Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious? JOHNSON : Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...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 - 474 pages
...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, your...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 - 324 pages
...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 - 326 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Texte - 1899 - 444 pages
...novelist/ afterwards. " Why, sir," wrote Johnson to Erskine, who condemned Richardson for being tedious, " 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." l Now "the sentiment," here, means chiefly the moral sentiment.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 416 pages
...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 pages
...£ui advocate he made a just and subtle distinction between occasional and habitual transgression. 171 if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...read ' Joseph Andrews.' " ERSKINE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...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. 
