"Richardson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... three times in a man's life when he is talked about,—when he is born, when he is married, and when he dies." "Yes," said Orrin S———, "and only one of the times has he to pay anything for it out of his own pocket." (In reference to a claim by the guests of the bar-room on the man Amasa Richardson for a treat.) ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... This is that romance and novel are widely separated from each other; and that the historian of the novel is really straying out of his ground if he meddles with Romance. These are they who would make our proper subject begin with Marivaux and Richardson, or at earliest with Madame de La Fayette, who exclude Bunyan altogether, and sometimes go so far as to question the right of entry to Defoe. But the counter-arguments are numerous: and any one of them would almost suffice by itself. In the first place ...
— The English Novel • George Saintsbury
... Connecticut was no longer satisfied with Dr. Watts's moral lyrics, whose jingle is still so instructive and pleasant to extreme youth. Milton and Dryden, Thomson and Pope, were read and admired; "The Spectator" was quoted as the standard of style and of good manners; and daring spirits even ventured upon Richardson's novels and ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various
... November, 1582, authorizing the marriage of William Shakespeare with Anne Whately, of Temple Grafton. On the very next day in the register of the same Bishop there is a deed, wherein Fulk Sandells and John Richardson, farmers of Shottery, bound themselves in the Bishop's court under a surety of L40 to free the Bishop of all liability should a lawful impediment—"by reason of any pre-contract or consanguinity"—be subsequently disclosed ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris
... childhood on pinions of light. Not a word more was spoken as they parted that morning, Yet the trail of a tear marked each cheek as they turned; For higher than law is the love of a mother,— It reversed the decision,—the court was adjourned. Sherman D. Richardson. ...
— Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp • Various
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