 | Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...exclaims ; "well might a critilater period Richardson announces Fielding has over-written or rather that your late brother's knowledge of it was not (fine writer as he was} comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine, while yours was that of... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - Authors, English - 1855 - 430 pages
...found many new beauties in them. What a knowledge of the human heart ! Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockworkmachine, while yours was that of all... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1895 - 788 pages
...novel. Richardson said of it : ' What a knowledge of the human heart ! Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork machine, while yours was that of... | |
 | England - 1869 - 796 pages
...published by her. " What knowledge of the human heart ! " he exclaims ; " well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine, while yours was that of... | |
 | England - 1869 - 824 pages
...published by her. " What knowledge of the human heart !" he exclaims ; " well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it was not (fine writer as he was) com-, parable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine, while... | |
 | 1869 - 1062 pages
...published by her. " What knowledge of the human heart I " M exclaims ; " well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it w?s not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but M the knowledge of the outside of... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 634 pages
...whose literary merits Fielding had spoken in the most generous terms. "Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it (the human heart) was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 640 pages
...late brother's knowledge of it (the human heart) was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork machine, whilst yours was that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside." The same figure, we may... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...wish him can hinder him from writing himself out of date ; " and that his knowledge of the human heart was " but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork machine ! " The interval between the publication of " Joseph Andrews " and Fielding's next great work may be... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...compliments Miss Fielding in 1756 on her knowledge of the human heart : " Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork machine, while yours was that of... | |
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What a knowledge of the human heart! Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work... 
