 In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed; and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence...  Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 69by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 94 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...I deliver,' he says, 'my book to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well. ... In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. grave, whole nations to the deep ? " No," 'tis replied,...by general laws ; The exceptions few ; some change author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceed the faults of that which it condemns,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 232 pages
...preface the author truly declared, etc. The passage which thus moved Home Tooke was the following : — In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitons to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 72 pages
...preface the author truly declared, etc. The passage which thus moved Home Tooke was the following : — In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pages
...the letter to Lord Chesterfield, are often quoted as representing Johnson's style at its best: — " In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns,... | |
 | Gilbert Milligan Tucker - 1895 - 252 pages
...detractor in the literary world, said he could never read without tears. The final paragraph runs thus: " In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 pages
...Preface, which moved Horne so deeply, is often quoted as a specimen of Johnson's best style, and is as follows : "In this work, when it shall be found that...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns... | |
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