Yes, sir: there was another fine passage too which he struck out : ' When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over ; for I found that generally what was new was false... The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 424by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 548 pages
...fine passage." JOHNSON. "Yes, Sir: there was another fine passage too, which he struck out : ' When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...indulge your delicacy too much ; or you will be a tete & tete man all your life." 1 "Dr.Burney," says M alone, "in a note by Dr. Johnson; not recollecting... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Abduction - 1911 - 236 pages
...man who is zealous for nothing.' There was another fine passage, too, which he struck out : ' When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false.' " (BoswELL vol. vii., p. 24.) and unfortunately, as I had neither, I suffered the cruelest mortification,... | |
| Frank Crane - Conduct of life - 1912 - 238 pages
...passage which Goldsmith struck out of his " Vicar of Wakefield." Doctor Johnson mentions it : " When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false." The greatest genius in literature does but express for the people what they already know. He gives... | |
| Charles Hall Grandgent - Education - 1920 - 198 pages
...Conquer, " old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." The same author once said: " When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false." Of wellnigh universal application was the opinion uttered later by Daniel Webster with reference to... | |
| Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - Poetry - 1923 - 448 pages
...of Apollo's, and — holed coats should be looked to. " When I was a young man," says Goldsmith, " being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually...I found that, generally, what was new was false." And if and •when our so-called New Poets attain to years of discretion they will make much the same... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...fine passage." JOHNSON: "Yes, sir: there was another fine passage, too, which he struck out: 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...of whom I had not a good opinion. JOHNSON: "But you mu~t not indulge your delicacy too much; or you will be a tete-a-tete man all your life." 57 Of his... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...fine passage." JOHNSON: "Yes, sir: there was another fine passage, too, which he struck out: 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But 1 soon gave this over; for, I found that generally- what was new was false.' " I said I did not like... | |
| Beverley Nichols - Biography - 1927 - 312 pages
...enough the quotation for the day, at the top of the page on which I began it, reads as follows: 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false. - Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol. VII, chap. viii.' LI SIR LANDON RONALE) or A Little Crime WE have... | |
| George Carpenter Clancy - American prose literature - 1928 - 288 pages
...Conquer, "old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." The same author once said: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false." Of well-nigh universal application was the opinion uttered later by Daniel Webster with reference to... | |
| Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...which, according to Boswell, were deleted from The Vicar of Wakeßeld, may serve as an apology. 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...over, for I found that generally what was new was false.'1 Shakespeare's greatness as a poet has never been in doubt in English-speaking countries; the... | |
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