 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 542 pages
...abusing his compeer in fiction, Henry Fielding, whom he called "a barren rascal." "Sir" (said Johnson), "there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones, Some one present here remarked that Richardson was very tedious. " Why, Sir," replied Johnson, "if... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 370 pages
...pictures of human life '(" JOHNSON: " Why, sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler." (So much the worse, I would ask leave to say, for Richardson.) " Sir, there is more knowledge of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 368 pages
...pictures of human life ?" JOHNSON : " Why, sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler." (So much the worse, I would aak leave to say, for Richardson.) "Sir, there is more knowledge of the... | |
 | 1910 - 532 pages
...blockhead." " What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal." And he added: — "Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones " Surely Coleridge in his Table Talk and Johnson in his conversation would have been more accomplished... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 330 pages
...favourably with Johnson's perfervid enthusiasm for Richardson. She never would have written or said that " there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones"* Her classical orthodoxy, her sincere admiration of Pope's correctness did not make her indifferent... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...natural pictures of human life?" JOHNSON: "Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have...heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.'2 I, indeed, never read ' Joseph Andrews.' " ERSKIXE : " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...was made (Richardson), and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate' (Life 2. 49). '"Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones. ... If you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 pages
...pictures of human lif e ?" JOHNSON. — "Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an hostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 278 pages
...down with him. According to Boswell Dr. Johnson called Fielding "a barren rascal," and remarked that "there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones." 179. 7. —Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); a celebrated English historian; author of The Decline and Fall... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 552 pages
...description. P. 167. Dr. Johnson seems to have preferred. Ci. Boswell's "Johnson," ed. Hill, II, 174: " Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones." P. 168. reproaches to her " lumpish heart." " Pamela," ed. Dobson and Phelps, I, 268. its lightness.... | |
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Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 
