 | Lal Behari Day - Bengal (India) - 1874 - 314 pages
...Richardson, gave 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,...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 - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...'Joseph Andrews.'—HONOURABLE THOMAS ERSKINE : "Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious."—JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...Andrews.' —• HONOURABLE THOMAS ERSKINE : " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious."—JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...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 - India - 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 - Authors, Irish - 1877 - 468 pages
...letter of Richard" son's, than in all Tom Jones ! I, indeed, never read Joseph A ndmes? ERSKINE : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON...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.... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...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...consider the story as only giving occasion to the partisan of George II., he observed to Richardson that certainly there must have been some very unfavourable... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - English fiction - 1882 - 352 pages
...said Erskine to Johnson, " Richardson is very tedious." " Why, sir," was the lexicographer's reply, " if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." But the reader of to-day will agree with Erskine in thinking that Richardson is tedious. We have so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones. I, indeed, never read Joseph Andrews." ERSKINE. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON....the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." A book of travels published under the title of Coriat Junior being mentioned, Johnson said it was in... | |
 | American periodicals - 1884 - 864 pages
...of them complained to Johnson that he found Richardson very tedious. " Why, sir," Johnson answered, "if you were to read Richardson for the story, your...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." He used to say of " Clarissa" that "it was the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1887 - 674 pages
...in his reply to the observation of the Honourable Thomas Erskine, that Richardson was tedious. — " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion to the sentiment." Were we to translate the controversy into plain language,... | |
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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. 
