It is a solace to hear of any one's reading and enjoying richardson.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Meanwhile richardson, as Johnson put it, had been teaching the passions to move at the command of virtue.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
In other words, richardson had discovered an incomparably more effective way of preaching a popular sermon.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen