He gave it altogether a larger, wider, higher, deeper range.

He infused in it (or restored to it) the refreshing and preserving element of humour.

He peopled it with a great crowd of lively and interesting characters--endowed, almost without regard to their technical "position _in_ life," with unlimited possession _of_ life.

He shook up its pillows, and bustled its business arrangements.

He first gave it--for in matter of prose style Richardson has few resources, and those rather respectable than transporting, and decidedly monotonous--the attractions of pure literature in form, and in pretty various form.