 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...regular composition a. Of these 1 Idler, No. 84. BOSWELL.— In this paper he says : 'Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another . . . lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity . . . and endeavours to hide the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...regular composition'. Of these ' Idler, No. 84. BOSWELL. — In this paper he says: 'Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another . . . lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity . . . and endeavours to hide the... | |
 | 1802 - 522 pages
...became great, but how lie was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince, but how he becarne discontented with himself. Those relations are therefore...to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance,decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragic dress, and endeavours to hide... | |
 | 1803 - 222 pages
...surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was. made happy; not how he lost the favour of his prince, but how he became discontented...commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own'story. He that recounts the life of another, commonly dwells most upon conspicuous events, lessens... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...affirm, that no motives of vanity, engendered by 1 Bacon's Works, 4to. i. 45. b ' Those relations are commonly of most value, in which the writer tells his own story.' Idler, No. 84. an overweening persuasion of great accomplishments or distinguished virtues, have impelled... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 410 pages
...surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince, but how he became discontented...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shows his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragic... | |
 | 1808 - 512 pages
..., -; Our great moralist admires a life in which a man is his own biographer. " Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his...familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favorite at a distance decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragic dress, and endear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince, but how he became discontented...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shows his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince, but how he became discontented...decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick dress, and endeavours to hide'the man that he may produce a hero. But if it be true, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince, but how he became discontented...decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in _J their tragick dress, and endeavours to hide the man that he may produce a hero. But if it be true,... | |
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Those relations are therefore commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another, commonly dwells most upon conspicuous events, lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite... 
