 | Frederic Thomas Blanchard - 1926 - 714 pages
...very low life. 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...Tom Jones. I, indeed, never read Joseph Andrews.' Then Erskine, who, like Boswell, must be regarded as representing the younger generation, enters his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...Advocate he made a just and subtle ^stinctioo between occasional and habitual transgression. have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of...letter of Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones.' l I, indeed, never read ' Joseph Andrews.' " ERSKINE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON.... | |
 | Peter Haworth - English literature - 1928 - 286 pages
...is the point of Dr. Johnson's remark to Erskine, comparing the novels of Richardson and Fielding. " Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones" Erskine objected that he found Richardson very tedious, doubtless because he tried to read him for... | |
 | Joseph Bunn Heidler - Criticism - 1928 - 196 pages
...story."70 Johnson never tired of praising Richardson by belittling Fielding. Boswell quoted him as saying, "Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones."71 He admitted that "if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be... | |
 | George Tobias Flom - Manuscripts, Icelandic and Old Norse - 1928 - 532 pages
...story."70 Johnson never tired of praising Richardson by belittling Fielding. Boswell quoted him as saying, "Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones."71 He admitted that "if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be... | |
 | English Association - English literature - 1925 - 188 pages
...nonsense, probable or improbable.' 1 The comment reminds us of Johnson's dictum about Richardson : ' Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your patience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment,... | |
 | 1856 - 596 pages
...superficial observer than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the mind. There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all " Tom Jones." ' Johnson, from the violence of his hatred to Fielding, is no authority upon his works. He called him... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1912 - 638 pages
...stress on character. Johnson, though a great admirer of Richardson, is well known to have said that, ' if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so fretted that you would hang yourself." No real Richardsonian would admit that. The story is, in fact,... | |
 | Peter Robinson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 312 pages
...that he draws very natural pictures of human life? ' JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, it is of very low life. . . Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all "Tom Jones.'"1 The Green Knight is wonderful (since all life is wonderful) but hopelessly insufficient,... | |
 | Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 296 pages
...elsewhere in defending Richardson, Johnson primarily admired the novelist for his 'knowledge of the heart': 'Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all "Tom Jones"'.''3 Similarly, in his introductory note to Richardson's contribution to The Rambler (No. 97,... | |
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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. 
