 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 - Page 289by Samuel Johnson - 1792Full view - About this book
 | 1750 - 228 pages
...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 - 1752 - 328 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 288 pages
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 | Joseph Towers - Bio-bibliography - 1773 - 498 pages
...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 - English essays - 1784 - 372 pages
...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 - English literature - 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 - 554 pages
...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... | |
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