 | James Boswell - 1799 - Počet stránok 640
...regular composition a. Of these 1 Idler, No. 84. BOSWELL.— In this paper he says : 'Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another . . . lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity . . . and endeavours to hide the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - Počet stránok 648
...regular composition'. Of these ' Idler, No. 84. BOSWELL. — In this paper he says: 'Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another . . . lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity . . . and endeavours to hide the... | |
 | 1802 - Počet stránok 522
...levelled with the general surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how lie was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince, but how he becarne discontented with himself. Those relations are therefore commonly of most value in which the... | |
 | 1803 - Počet stránok 222
...levelled with the general 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,...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... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - Počet stránok 590
...affirm, that no motives of vanity, engendered by 1 Bacon's Works, 4to. i. 45. b ' Those relations are commonly of most value, in which the writer tells his own story.' Idler, No. 84. an overweening persuasion of great accomplishments or distinguished virtues, have impelled... | |
 | 1808 - Počet stránok 512
..., -; 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, shews his favorite at a distance decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragic dress,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Počet stránok 386
...levelled with the general 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,...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Počet stránok 386
...levelled with the general 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,...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in _J their tragick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Počet stránok 484
...levelled with the general 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,...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Počet stránok 428
...levelled with the general 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,...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragic... | |
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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... 
