 The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast...  The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler - Page 283by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. ' The business of the exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account... | |
 | William Henry Sheran - Criticism - 1905 - 602 pages
...this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances...produce vulgar greatness to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 712 pages
...the sentiments of the very man wh( >se life I am about to exhibit. "The business of the bio; ;rapher is often to pass slightly over those performances...incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the tho jghts into domestick privacies, and display the minute deti iils of daily life, whose exteriour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...those performances and incidents 20 which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily...where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excell each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with great pro25 priety,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...those performances and incidents 20 which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are east aside, and men excell each other only by prudence and by yirtue. The account of Thuanus is, with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1925 - 1322 pages
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 | 1961 - 406 pages
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 | Harold Nicolson - Biography as a literary form - 1927 - 170 pages
...with exciting adventures or important public events. On the contrary, the art of the biographer is to "pass slightly over those performances and incidents/^----...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and to display the minute details of daily life." With this in mind he condemns... | |
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