 | Samuel Richardson - 1812 - 428 pages
...who will cmiriuLT I, .(in oi the truth of my assertion. But here cuines Lucy. — ' My -dear airl, take the pen — I am too sentimental. The French...hunt after, whether sense or nonsense, probable or improhable. LUCY.] ' Ble'ss me, Lady G. ! you have written a great deal in a little time. What am I... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English literature - 1899 - 536 pages
...suddenly, fearing she is too sentimental : " The French only are proud of sentiments at this date ; the English cannot bear them ; story, story, story,...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable." This is to say that Richardson, offering amusement in the hope to secure reformation, protests against... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 396 pages
...I do ; and perhaps before they have daughters who will convince them of the truth of my assertion. But here comes Lucy. — ' My dear girl, take the...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable.' Lucy.J 'Bless me, Lady G ! you have written a great deal in a little time. What am I to do ? ' Lady... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - Great Britain - 1902 - 396 pages
...I do ; and perhaps before they have daughters who will convince them of the truth of my assertion. But here comes Lucy. — ' My dear girl, take the...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable.' written a great deal in a little time. What am I to do ? ' Lady G.] ' You brought the happy pair into... | |
 | 1900 - 1162 pages
...up suddenly, fearing she Is too sentimental: "The French only are proud of sentiments at this date; the English cannot bear them; story, story, story,...whether sense or nonsense, probable or Improbable." This Is to say that Richardson, offering amusement In the hope to secure reformation, protests against... | |
 | 1926 - 434 pages
...was, in this respect, less susceptible than the continent. In " Sir Charles Grandison " he says : " The French only are proud of sentiments at this day...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable." Continental nations were not concerned whether his pictures of English society were true or false.... | |
 | 1899 - 874 pages
...suddenly, fearing she Is too sentimental: "The French only are proud of sentiments at this date; toe English cannot bear them; story, story, story, Is...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable." This Is to say that Richardson, offering amusement in the hope to secure reformation, protests against... | |
 | English Association - English literature - 1911 - 192 pages
...testimony to this out of Richardson's own mouth in some lines in one of the letters in Grandifon: ' The French only are proud of sentiments at this day...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable.' Even those who still prized ' sentiments ' sought for them elsewhere, and in another kind, in the pages... | |
 | English Association - English literature - 1925 - 188 pages
...Harriet. The sprightly Charlotte surprises herself making moral reflections and stops short suddenly : ' My dear girl, take the pen, I am too sentimental. The French only are proud of tneir sentiments at this day ; the 1 Letters, ed. by his daughter, 1776, p. 14. 2 Lady Bradshaigh became... | |
 | Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 296 pages
...upright characters in the book it is wittily gay Charlotte whom we hear say, with a touch of impatience: 'My dear girl, take the pen - I am too sentimental...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable' (III, 228). Richardson's rare usage of the adjective, emphatically italicized both here and in the... | |
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My dear girl, take the pen — I am too sentimental. The French only are proud of sentiments at this day ; the English cannot bear them : Story, story, story, is what they hunt after, whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable. 
