 | Francis Seymour Stevenson - 1893 - 160 pages
...funeral. ... 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...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory." Boswell's Life of "Johnson certainly furnishes an illustration of the truth of those observations,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 570 pages
...FORSTER. ' 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...biography are of a ' volatile and evanescent kind '—JOHNSON (Rawtter, 60). * I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life, than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...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 incidents...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1900 - 572 pages
...FORSTER. ' If a Life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but 1 must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography ate of a 1 volatile and evanescent kind '— JOHNSON (Rambler, 60). ' I cannot conceive a more perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...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 incidents...soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted bv tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and... | |
 | 1902 - 300 pages
...his literary method. " The incidents, which give excellence to biography," wrote Dr. Johnson, "are of volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape...the memory and are rarely transmitted by tradition." It requires a literary Martha to collect them, and Anthony was a literary Martha. Prof. Masson, who... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but Shakspeare. 1758] BROTHERS AND SISTERS 217 original...with levity, or lost by negligence, than destroyed transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent... | |
 | William Henry Sheran - 1905 - 602 pages
...useless. If a life be delayed until interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents...how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by its most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may... | |
 | Joseph E. Morcombe - 1906 - 412 pages
...balance: "If a life be delayed until interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents...acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable peculiarities and the grosser features of his mind; and it may be easily imagined how much of this... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1906 - 340 pages
...funeral. ... 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...memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition." — Rambler, No. 60. Dnane's footprints in the sands are not so frequent and so clearly impressed for... | |
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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... 
