 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 506 pages
...another figure (which Richardson had himself used), "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."* It was, I suppose, Fielding who could explain the mechanism of a watch to a reader who had patience... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 550 pages
...another figure (which Richardson had himself used), "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."* It was, I suppose, Fielding who could explain the mechanism of a watch to a reader who had patience... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 472 pages
...between the two •"Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay," 1904, I, 72. writers, he often asserted, "as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and...could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." Fielding's novels, as I have previously observed, were the watches which only the sharpeyed were able... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 458 pages
...between the two •"Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay," 1904, I, 72. writers, he often asserted, "as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and...could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." Fielding's novels, as I have previously observed, were the watches which only the sharpeyed were able... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 496 pages
...another figure (which Richardson had himself used), "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."* It was, I suppose, Fielding who could explain the mechanism of a watch to a reader who had patience... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - Authors, English - 1918 - 470 pages
...difference between the two ""Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay," 1904, I, 72. writers, he often asserted, "as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and...could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." Fielding's novels, as I have previously observed, were the watches which only the sharpeyed were able... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1922 - 562 pages
...play. 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... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...letter of Richardson than in all of Tom Jones; there was, again, 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 a dial plate. 1 These are but criticisms of their artistic value, but there can be hardly a question... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 304 pages
...letter of Richardson than in all of Tom Jones; there was, again, 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 a dial plate. 1 These are but criticisms of their artistic value, but there can be hardly a question... | |
 | German literature - 1907 - 702 pages
...man must dive into the recesses of the human heart .... 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" Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson 8. 189. 786. Vgl. Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson 8. 334. 787.... | |
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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. 
