 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or 20 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 25 adorned with uniform panegyric,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or 20 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 failing's of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; 'we therefore see... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric,... | |
 | Harold Nicolson - Biography as a literary form - 1927 - 170 pages
...with courage and good sense. "There are many," he writes, "who think it an act of piety to hide the f 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 panegyric,... | |
 | Harold Nicolson - Biography (as a literary form) - 1928 - 166 pages
...notice. Of this problem also he disposes with courage and good sense. "There are many," he writes, "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 panegyric,... | |
 | Virginia - 1926 - 346 pages
...which nothing would be more unjust and cruel; but simply the homage due to truth. Dr. Johnson has said. "There are many who think it an act of piety to hide...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by the detection." and he adds: "If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Literary Collections - 1968 - 400 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,... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 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,... | |
 | David Gessner - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 254 pages
...section I'd heard Bate quote often before and one that would become a guide for me in my future work. "There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends," I read, but "If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge,... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - Authors, English - 2005 - 321 pages
...with his funeral. " The biographer understands the problem of treading on the sensibilities of the "many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or fails of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection. " But he remains loyal... | |
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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... 
