| Samuel Richardson - 1812 - 428 páginas
...I, .(in oi the truth of my assertion. But here cuines Lucy. — ' My -dear airl, take the pen — I am too sentimental. The French only are proud of sentiments...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 - 1899 - 536 páginas
...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 páginas
...convince them of the truth of my assertion. But here comes Lucy. — ' My dear girl, take the pen — I am too sentimental. The French only are proud of sentiments...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 - 1902 - 396 páginas
...convince them of the truth of my assertion. But here comes Lucy. — ' My dear girl, take the pen — I am too sentimental. The French only are proud of sentiments...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1911 - 192 páginas
...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 - 1925 - 188 páginas
...dropped her pseudonym. ' Con,espondence. of Samuel Richardson, ed. Mrs. Barbauld, 1804, iv. 282-3, English cannot bear them. Story, story, story is what...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable.' 1 The comment reminds us of Johnson's dictum about Richardson : ' Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson... | |
| Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - 1983 - 296 páginas
...wittily gay Charlotte whom we hear say, with a touch of impatience: 'My dear girl, take the pen - I am too sentimental . The French only are proud of...whether sense or nonsense, probable or improbable' (III, 228). Richardson's rare usage of the adjective, emphatically italicized both here and in the... | |
| |