...Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your patience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself....refrain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's excssive and unaccountble depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced. " Tom...

...the famous Lord Chancellor, objected : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson replied, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." Lord Chesterfield, " the undisputed sovereign of wit and fashion," said of him : " To do him justice...

...the famous Lord Chancellor, objected: " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious," Johnson replied, " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story,...the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." Lord Chesterfield, " the undisputed sovereign of wit and fashion," said of him : " To do him justice...

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...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...

...Richardson is 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,...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...

...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....

...£ui advocate he made a just and subtle distinction between occasional and habitual transgression. 171 - of the best writers that England has produced : " Tom Jones " has stood the test of public opinion...

...letter of Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read ' Joseph Andrews.' " ERSKINE. " Surely, Sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON....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...

..." ' Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones! I, indeed, never read Joseph Andrews' EKSKINE : '...yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment.'" — Boswell, iii. 207-208. (For an exception he would occasionally make in favor of Amelia, see Mrs....