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" 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 machine, while your's was that of all... "
Richardson and Fielding: The Dynamics of a Critical Rivalry - Page 69
by Allen Michie - 1999 - 264 pages
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The Life of Henry Fielding: With Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His ...

Frederick Lawrence - Authors, English - 1855 - 430 pages
...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 say, as he...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockworkmachine, while yours was that of all...
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The Life of Henry Fielding: With Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His ...

Frederick Lawrence - Authors, English - 1855 - 428 pages
...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 say, as he...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockworkmachine, while yours was that of all...
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English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches

Julia Kavanagh - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 346 pages
...human heart!" he exclaims, in this gentle interchange of admiration. "Well might a critical j udge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork machine, while yours was that of...
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English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches

Julia Kavanagh - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 362 pages
...in this gentle interchange of admiration. "Well might a critical judge of writing say, ashedidtome, that your late brother's knowledge of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork machine, while yours was that of...
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Historia tōn archaiōn ethnōn: syntaxtheisa en trisi vivliois. Periéchon ta ...

Kōnstantinos Schinas - Asia - 1863 - 350 pages
...Simple." "What a knowledge of the human heart!" he exclaims, in this gentle interchange of admiration. "Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clockwork machine, while yours was that of...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 105

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 105

1869 - 1062 pages
...reperused a collection of letters published by her. “What knowledge of the human heart!” he cxclaims; “well might a critical judge of writing say, as...did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it wi's not (fine writer as he was) corn-- parable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside...
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Landmarks of English Literature

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 briefly...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 512 pages
...1756, to Miss Fielding, about her Familiar Letters, says:—' What a knowledge of the human heart ! Well might a critical judge of writing say, as he...of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine, while yours was that of...
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Landmarks of English Literature

Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1889 - 636 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...
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