 | Samuel Johnson - Anecdotes - 1798 - 464 pages
..." that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was madej and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dialplate." This was a thort and figurative ftate * Mr. Bofwcll fays, he confiders it as a piece of the fecondary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...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 pn the dial-plate." This was a short and figurative state of his distinction between drawing characters... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...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 - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...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...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...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 - 480 pages
...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...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...authors, the critic uses this illustration—« 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 at the dial-plate.»' Dissenting as we do from the conclusions to be deduced from Dr Johnson's simile,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...comparing those two writers, he usea this expression ; " that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and...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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that there was as great a difference between [Richardson and Fielding] 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. 
