 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 trang
...pleased with the character of the heroine of this novel. " His attention to veracity (says Mr* Piozzi,) was without equal or example ;" and when I mentioned...truth." " Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroiiie of all the romances, (he said,) but that vile broken nose, never cured, ruined the sale of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 trang
...the character of the heroine of this novel. " His attention to veracity," says Mrs. Piozzi, " was_ without equal or example ; and when I mentioned Clarissa...never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.'"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 trang
...with the character of the heroine of this novel. " His attention to veracity," says Mrs. Piozzi, " was^ without equal or example ; and when I mentioned...but that vile broken nose, never cured, ruined the •ale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] bctimes one morning, a new edition... | |
 | 1821 - 372 trang
...with the character of the heroine of this novel. " His attention * to veracity," says Mrs. Piozzi, " was without equal or example ; and when I mentioned...but that vile broken nose, never cured, ruined the fa]e of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 trang
...novel. " His attention to veracity (says Mrs. Piozzi,) was without equal or example ; " and when E mentioned Clarissa as a perfect character, " On the...never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night."... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 trang
...field, but we turn tier out of a garden.' 324. Mrs. Piozzi said of him, ' that his attention to veracity was without equal or example : and when I mentioned...something- which she prefers to truth.' Fielding's Amelia, in his opinion, was the most pleasing heroine of all romances. 325. When the le'arned professions were... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 trang
...goodness in any transaction one might be engaged in with Samuel Johnson. His attention to veracity was without equal or example ; and when I mentioned...never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night." Mr. JoEnson's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 trang
...Johnson directly allowed so little merit. — BOSWELL. "His attention to veracity," says Mrs. Piozzi, " was without equal or example ;" and when I mentioned...romances," he said ; " but that vile broken nose, never cuied, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 trang
...pleased with the character of the heroine of this novel. "His attention to veracity," says Mrs. Piozzi, " was without equal or example ;" and when I mentioned...perhaps the only book, of which, being printed off (published) betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night"— Anecdotes, p. 221. —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 trang
...heroine of this novel, and said, Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances, but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, of which, being published betimes one morning, a new edition •was called for before night." — Anecdotes, p 221.]... | |
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Fielding's Amelia was the mosT: pleasing heroine of all the romances (he said) ; but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night. 
