 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 your's. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work...  Samuel Richardson - Page 100by Austin Dobson - 1902 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Richardson - Novelists, English - 1804 - 360 pages
...two vols. of Letters. Have re-perused them with great pleasure, and found many new beauties in them. What a knowledge of the human heart ! Well might a critical judge of writing writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it was not (fine writer as he was)... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - Authors, English - 1855 - 398 pages
...volumes of 'Letters;' have repcrused them with great pleasure, and found many new beauties in them. What a knowledge of the human heart ! Well might a...yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwoikmachine, while yours was that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside." An observation... | |
 | England - 1869 - 824 pages
...reperused a collection of letters published by her. " What knowledge of the human heart !" he exclaims ; " well might a critical judge of writing say, as he...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
...reperused a collection of letter* 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 - 1882 - 640 pages
...communication with Fielding's sister, of 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 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...wish him can hinder him from writing himself out of date ; " and that his knowledge of the human heart was " but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork machine !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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...two volumes of "Letters ;" have reperused them with great pleasure, and found many beauties in them. What a knowledge of the human heart! Well might a...yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork-machine, while yours was that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside. — RICHARDSON,... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 502 pages
...to her, in line with a remark of Dr. Johnson's, that her late brother's knowledge of the human heart was but as "the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine," while hers was "that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside."* To be suspected as the author... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 506 pages
...to her, in line with a remark of Dr. Johnson's, that her late brother's knowledge of the human heart was but as "the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine," while hers was "that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside. ' ' To be suspected as the author... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 496 pages
...to her, in line with a remark of Dr. Johnson's, that her late brother's knowledge of the human heart was but as "the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine," while hers was "that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside."* To be suspected as the author... | |
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