 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,...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 277by Samuel Johnson - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 pages
...are of a volatile and evanefcen.t kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by bis moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the grofler features of his mind ; and it may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfinkted by tradition. ,We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the grofler features of his mind ; and it may be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the grofler features of his mind ; and it may be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the grofler features of his mind ; and it may be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the grofler features of his mind ; and it may be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, 'and are transmitted 2 by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, "and are transmitted8 by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1801 - 326 pages
...biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape die memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living, acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the groffer features of his mind ;: and it may be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities,andthe groffer features of his mind ; and it may be eafily... | |
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