 | 1811 - 394 pages
...himself. 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 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 - 1823 - 582 pages
...surface of life, which tell not howany 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 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...himself. Those relations are therefore commonly of "lost value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another> commonly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 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 - 1825 - 610 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 - 1825 - 482 pages
...of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he Avas 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 - 1825 - 488 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...familiarity of his tale to increase it.s dignity, shows his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy ; not bow be lost the favour of his prince, but how he became discontented...therefore commonly of most value in which the writer tells bis own story. He that recounts the life of another, commonly dwells most upon conspicuous events,... | |
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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... 
