...catch." " Fielding's Amelia," said Dr. Johnson, " was the most pleasing heroine of all his romances ; but that vile broken Nose — never cured — ruined the sale of perhaps the only book of which, being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night." Tycho...

...broken, was cured. His critics did not fail to notice the omission and Johnson went so far as to say " that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night," (Mrs Piozzi, Anecdotes of Dr Johnson)....

...nose. When Mrs. Thrale praised Clarissa to him as a perfect character, he replied: "On the contrary you may observe there is always something which she...of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night."27 That great Johnson scholar, GB Hill,...

...broken nose, never cured, ruined,' said Dr. Johnson, ' the sale of perhaps the only book, which being published betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.' Fielding fastened this blemish upon his heroine, because his wife had met with a similar accident before...

...masterpiece. Disputing Mrs. Thrale's enshrinement of Clarissa as the perfect character, Johnson observes that "there is always something which she prefers to truth....was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances." 109 Here the rigorous moralism of Rambler No. 4, with Johnson's insistence upon icons of unalloyed...

...mentioned to Johnson that Clarissa was "a perfect character," Mrs. Piozzi was surprised at his reply: 'On the contrary (said he), you may observe there...sale of perhaps the only book which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.'41 In her diary for March-April 1778,...

...engaged in with Samuel Johnson. His attention to veracity was without equal or example: and when I mentioned Clarissa as a perfect character; "On the...of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night." Mr. Johnson's knowledge of literary...

...engaged in with Samuel Johnson. His attention to veracity was without equal or example: and when I mentioned Clarissa as a perfect character; "On the...of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night." Mr. Johnson's knowledge of literary...