 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..: The rambler - Strana 289podľa Samuel Johnson - 1792Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1750 - Počet stránok 228
...and all motives to calumny or flattery are fupprefled, we may hope for impartiality ; but muft expefl little intelligence : for the incidents which give...rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - Počet stránok 292
...If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for, impartiality, but muft expect little intelligence; for the incidents which...rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1773 - Počet stránok 498
...however diligently fought, are not always to be found. " The incidents," fays an ingenious writer, " which give excellence to Biography, " are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fut h as foon " efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by (" tradition." Jt may alio be obferved,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - Počet stránok 372
...ufelefs. If a life be delayed till iutcieft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect: little intelligence; for the incidents which...few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by bis moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the grofler features of his mind ; and it may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect VOL. V. C c little lirtlc intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence...kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfinkted by tradition. ,We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - Počet stránok 554
...ufelefs. If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which...evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Počet stránok 582
...end, we may hope for impartiality, but mufl c\pcft little intelligence ; for the incidents S * which which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foonefcaptthe memory, and are rarely trinfmitted by tradition. We know how few can povirtray a living... | |
 | 1793 - Počet stránok 412
...Incidents of an interefting and characteriftic kind, however diligently fought, are not always to be found. The incidents, •which give excellence to Biography,...the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. It may alfo be obferved, that there are many particulars and circumihnces, which, though of too general... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - Počet stránok 640
...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 which...give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, "and are transmitted8 by tradition. We know how few... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - Počet stránok 496
...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 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... | |
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