 | Mark Salber Phillips - History - 2000 - 390 pages
...Burney.0' Johnson himself had a passion for biographical knowledge, so much so that he sincerely felt "that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." 17 14 Ibid., 23-24. " The satire was written by Alexander Chalmers and printed by John Wilson Croker... | |
 | Paul Atkinson - Reference - 2001 - 536 pages
...Press. pp. 75..88. 27 The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research KEN PLUMMER l have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ... (Samuel Jobnson. c. l760l We are safe in saying that personal life records. as complete as possible.... | |
 | Robert Scholes - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 278 pages
...ordinary life would be a valuable undertaking. "I have often thought," he wrote in Rambler No. 60 in 1750, "that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful" (Johnson 168). But he was also acutely aware of the way that human beings moved in textual grooves... | |
 | Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Amanda Coffey, John Lofland, Lyn Lofland - Social Science - 2007 - 529 pages
...pp. 75-88. 394 27 The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research KEN PLUMMER I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ... (Samuel Johnson, c.1760) We are safe in saying that personal life records, as complete as possible,... | |
 | Ken Plummer, Kenneth Plummer - Psychology - 2001 - 324 pages
...of ideas. 3 Accessories to a Life Story: From Written Diaries to Video Diaries I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. (Samuel Johnson, 1750) It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. (Lytton Strachey,... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 210 pages
...Johnson's most noteworthy contribution to the poetics of modern biography appears in his observation that "there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." With this statement he expands the traditional qualifications of the biographical subject (formulaic... | |
 | Peter France, William St Clair - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 368 pages
...interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition [...].! have often thought that there has rarely passed a Life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...private, and privileging the personal experience of the ordinary individual: "I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful" (Rambler 6o, 1n, 32o). In biography and the sentimental histories of the Scottish Enlightenment, the... | |
 | Ted Farrell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 340 pages
...has made her peace with Dr Johnson and has accepted his challenge: 'I have often thought that there rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.'6 Shields's pursuit of some of the questions that have sparked the debate of theorists of biography... | |
 | Myrtle S. Bolner, Gayle A. Poirier - Bibliography - 2004 - 464 pages
...articles, using the criteria you used for each in Questions 3 and 5 above. 304 Biographical Information "There has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." Samuel Johnson Introduction A biography is a written history of a person's life and accomplishments.... | |
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. 
