 | William John Fitz-Patrick - 1879 - 404 ページ
...have but followed the counsel of Johnson, who declares that " the incidents which give excellence to a biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind —...the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition ; " while his own biographer, Boswell, avers, "minute particulars are frequently characteristic, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 ページ
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 ページ
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 ページ
...Reply to possible objections. why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless.' If ^*- life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for * ^~»partiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which ve excellence to biography... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 ページ
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 ページ
...said ' he knew nothing of Pope and nothing of poetry.' "—Boswell, ii., 166. XXXIV. (Page 328.)—" If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, then we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 ページ
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can potirtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 ページ
...deprived the world of this great man, on the I7th of June, 1719."—Addison's Works, ed. 1862, i., xi. impartiality, but must expect little intelligence...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | Francis Seymour Stevenson - 1893 - 160 ページ
...servants than by a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. ... If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory." Boswell's Life of "Johnson certainly furnishes an illustration of the truth of those observations,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 570 ページ
...KATE, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THEIR FRIEND, AND THEIR FATHER'S FRIEND AND EXECUTOR, JOHN FORSTER. ' If a Life be delayed till interest and envy are at...biography are of a ' volatile and evanescent kind '—JOHNSON (Rawtter, 60). * I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life, than... | |
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If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and... 
