 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 Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Page 621750Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 pages
...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 are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...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 are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...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 are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...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 are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how... | |
 | Francis Seymour Stevenson - 1893 - 164 pages
...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." Boswell's Life of Johnson certainly furnishes an... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 570 pages
...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 '—JOHNSON (Rawtter, 60). * I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...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 are transmitted by tradition. We know how few... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect mes Boswell evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...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 are rarely transmitted bv tradition. We know how... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 404 pages
...biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind; and it may be... | |
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