In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate. The History of Henry Fielding - Página 129por Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Boswell - 1791 - 554 páginas
...unreafonable prejudice againft Fielding. In comparing thofe two writers, he ufed this expreffion ; " that there was as great a difference between them...could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a fhort and figurative ftate of his diftinction between drawing characters of nature and characters... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 páginas
...unreafonable prejudice againft Fielding. In comparing thofe two writers, he ufed this expreffion ; " that there was as great a difference between them...could tell the hour by looking on the dialplate." This was a fhort and figurative flat* * Mr. Bofwell fays, he confiders it as a piece of the fecondary... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 páginas
...unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them...could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and figurative state of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 páginas
...unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression; " that there was as great a difference between them...could tell the hour by looking ,on the dial-plate." This was a short and figurative state of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters... | |
| 1824 - 758 páginas
...comparing these two distinguished authors, the critic uses this illustration, — ' that there was ai great a difference between them, as between a man who knew how a watch was made, • Smollett's bad version of Don Quixote is an exception. Motteux's is tlic translation of Quixote... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...that there »as as great a difference between them us between a man who knew how a watch was made, und a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." Johnson used to quote with approbation a saying of Richardson'», " that the virtues of Fielding's... | |
| John Selden - 1818 - 678 páginas
...an unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression; "that there was as great a difference between them...could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and figurative state of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 páginas
...he nsed this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them ns between a man u ho knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." Johnson nsed to quote with approbation a saying of Richardson's, " that the virtnes of Fielding's heroes... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 páginas
...unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them...could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and figurative state of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 472 páginas
...unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them,...could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and figurative state of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters... | |
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