Samuel Johnson was one of the first to respond to the novel, but he focused primarily on the preface: "If you were to require my opinion which part the preface should be changed, I should be inclined to the supression of that part which seems to disclaim the composition. What is modesty, if it deserts from truth? Of what use is the disguise by which nothing is concealed? You must forgive this, because it is meant well." Sarah Fielding, in her introduction to "The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia", claims that people have an "insatiable Curiosity for Novels or Romances" that tell of the "rural Innocence of a "Joseph Andrews", or the inimitable Virtues of Sir "Charles Grandison"". Andrew Murphy, in the "Gray's Inn Journal", emphasised the history of the production when he wrote: