 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned -with •uniform panegyric,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1855 - 332 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act...the faults or failings of- their friends, even when theycan no longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are ! many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or tailings of their fiiends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore sec... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...his fear, hi« grmti- ¡ tude, or his tendernen, overpower hit fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to bide the faultt or tailings of their friend«, even when they can no lonirer suffer by their detection... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal if not to invent. There are many who think it an act...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of 1 ' I am absolutely certain that my Malone's note of March 15, 1781, and mode of biography, which gives... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 576 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of ' ' I am absolutely certain that my Malone's note of March 15, 1781, and mode of biography, which gives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick,... | |
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There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one... 
