 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...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...(he said) ; but that vile broken nose never cured 3, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 626 pages
...1707, d. 1754) Johnson said that Fielding's " Amelia " was the most pleasing heroine of all romances ; 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." — Mrs. Piozii.... | |
 | John William Mackail - Greek poetry - 1910 - 306 pages
...Richardson's greatest admirer. " When I mentioned Clarissa," she writes in her Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, " as a perfect character, ' On the contrary,' said he, ' you may observe that there is always something which she prefers to truth.' " Thus too in the Antigone, Ismene, the... | |
 | William Thomas Fernie - Phrenology - 1913 - 442 pages
...catch." " Fielding's Amelia," said Dr. Johnson, " was the most pleasing heroine of all his romances ; but that vile broken Nose — never cured — ruined...perhaps the only book of which, being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night." Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer,... | |
 | Aurélien Digeon - 1925 - 282 pages
...broken, was cured. His critics did not fail to notice the omission and Johnson went so far as to say " 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," (Mrs Piozzi,... | |
 | Frederic Thomas Blanchard - 1926 - 710 pages
...nose. When Mrs. Thrale praised Clarissa to him as a perfect character, he replied: "On the contrary you may observe there is always something which she...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."27 That great... | |
 | Joseph F. Bartolomeo - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 228 pages
...masterpiece. Disputing Mrs. Thrale's enshrinement of Clarissa as the perfect character, Johnson observes that "there is always something which she prefers to truth....was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances." 109 Here the rigorous moralism of Rambler No. 4, with Johnson's insistence upon icons of unalloyed... | |
 | Dennis Todd, Cynthia Wall, J. Paul Hunter - Literary Collections - 2001 - 332 pages
...mentioned to Johnson that Clarissa was "a perfect character," Mrs. Piozzi was surprised at his reply: 'On the contrary (said he), you may observe there...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.'41 In her diary... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 pages
...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. Johnson's... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 270 pages
...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. Johnson's... | |
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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. 
