 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 386by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 746 pages
...single circumstance of private persons, though of eminence in letters,, except the date of their death. "The incidents which give excellence to biography...volatile and evanescent kind, su,ch as soon escape (i* t\ ' ^J Vl£i . _..'•'.. f „*„ "* •. " the .memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 pages
...of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect...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 - 1817 - 466 pages
...of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, und the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...of particular persons are barren and useless. 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 incident* which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...of particular persons are barren and useless. 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 mcidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect...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 - 1820 - 442 pages
...nseless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but mnst expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray u living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, und the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at. an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect...rarely transmitted by tradition. . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
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