 Poetry, indeed, may perhaps be thought an exception; but then it demands numbers, or something like numbers; whereas, to the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Page 482by Henry Fielding, Walter Scott - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Henry Fielding - 1749 - 348 pages
...be the Opinion of their Readers, if indeed there be any fuch. Hence we are to derive that univerfal Contempt, which the World, who always denominate the Whole from the Majority, have caft on all hiftorical Writers, who do not draw their *— — Each defperate Blockhead dares to write,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1766 - 416 pages
...be the opinion of their readers, if, indeed there be any fuch. Hence we are to derive that univerfal contempt, which the world, who always denominate the whole from the majority, .have call on all hiftorical writers, who do not draw their materials from records. And. it is the apprehenfion... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 850 pages
...paper, pens, and ink, with tlie manual capacity of using them. This, I conceive, their productions shew to be the opinion of the authors themselves ; and...universal contempt, which the world, who always denominate tlie whole from the majority, have cast on all historical writers, who do not draw their materials... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...or something like numbers ; whereas to the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity...of using them. This, I conceive, their productions shew to be the opinion of the authors themselves ; and this must be the opinion of their readers, if... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 514 pages
...or something like numbers ; whereas, to the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity...opinion of their readers, if, indeed, there be any such. * Each desperate blockhead dares to write: Verse is the trad* of every living wight FRASCIS, Hence... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1861 - 506 pages
...or something like numbers ; whereas, to the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. This, 1 conceive, their productions show to be the opinion of the unthors themselves : and this must bo the... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1872 - 748 pages
...«r something like numbers ; whereas to the composition of novels and romances nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity...their readers, if indeed there be any such. Hence wo are to derive tliat universal contempt which the world, who always denominate the whole from the... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pages
...Such. — Such is also used to represent a preceding Noun, when it has a pronominal force : as — " This, I conceive, their productions show to be the...opinion of their readers, if indeed there be any such" [ie any readers]. (Fielding, TJ ix. 1.) " Friends he has few .... Who dare be such." (Dryden, Abs.... | |
 | 1883 - 396 pages
...fiction, wrote similar words, — "Whereas to the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them." Edinburgh. JAMES PURVES. [This letter was written and in type before the illness which has deprived... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1890 - 474 pages
...or something like numbers; whereas, to the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity...historical writers, who do not draw their materials from — Each desperate blockhead dares to write: Verse is the trade of every living wight. FBAKCIS. records.... | |
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