 | Joseph F. Bartolomeo - 1994 - 228 páginas
...Fielding's superior ability to sustain the reader's attention. Boswell has recounted Johnson's arguing that '"what we read with inclination makes a much stronger...there is but one half to be employed on what we read.' He told us, he read Fielding's 'Amelia' through without stopping." 160 To Richardson, however, Johnson... | |
 | Steven R. Fischer - 2004 - 388 páginas
...man should read five hours in a day, and so may acquire a great deal of knowledge'. For, he insisted, 'what we read with inclination makes a much stronger...there is but one half to be employed on what we read'. He even instructed Boswell 'to have as many books about me as I could, that I might read upon my subject... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 páginas
...was printing. When it was wanted, and he had fairly sat down to it, he was sure it would be done.' read with inclination makes a much stronger impression....there is but one half to be employed on what we read.' He told us, he read Fielding's Amelia through without stopping.1 He said, 'if a man begins to read... | |
 | 1905 - 314 páginas
...to be sure, if a man has a science to learn, he must regularly and resolutely advance." He added : " What we read with inclination makes a much stronger...there is but one half to be employed on what we read." With respect to children's books, he said to Mrs. Thrale : " Babies do not want to hear about babies... | |
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He told us, he read Fielding's Amelia through without stopping *. He said,' if a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it, to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. 
