 | Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1924 - 494 pagina’s
...Johnson, upon a memorable occasion, called Fielding "a blockhead", adding, after Boswell's remonstrance, 'What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal.' Nevertheless the 'barren rascal' has proved a fertile subject for biographers, commentators, essayists... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pagina’s
...since risen into such brilliant reputation at the bar in Westminster-hall. Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, " he was a blockhead ; " and upon...that had he not known who Fielding was, he should 1 It must not be presumed that Dr. Johnson meant to give any countenance to licentiousness, though... | |
 | Peter Robinson - 1972 - 312 pagina’s
...far as it is amoral it is subhuman. It reminds me of Johnson on Fielding: Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, 'he was a blockhead'; and upon...life? ' JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, it is of very low life. . . Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all "Tom Jones.'"1... | |
 | Rowland McMaster - 1991 - 220 pagina’s
...judgements: 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead;" and upon my expressing astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said,...mean by his being a blockhead is that he was a barren rascal."'41 Gibbon was notorious for his anti-Christian bias in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pagina’s
...since risen into such brilliant reputation at the bar in Westminster-hall. Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, 'he was a blockhead;' and upon...strange an assertion, he said, 'What I mean by his bemg a blockhead is that he was a barren rascal.' BOSWELL. 'Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws... | |
 | James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts - 1999 - 320 pagina’s
...Fielding, whom he dismissed as a "blockhead" and "a barren rascal." Boswell defended Fielding, however: "Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" — to which Dr. Johnson responded, dismissively, "Why, Sir, it is of very low life" (qtd. by Maugham... | |
 | 1893 - 240 pagina’s
...thought so invigorating, Johnson said, " Sir, he was a blockhead." And he explained his meaning. " What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal ; " and he added — " Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than... | |
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Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, " he was a blockhead ; " and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, " What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal. 
