 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind;...of copies will lose all resemblance of the original '." I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness on some occasions of my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...tradition. We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind...imagined how much of this little knowledge may be tost in imparting it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...tradition. We know how few canpourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable Warburton himself, who, in the Preface to his Shakspeare,...of Essays, Remarks, Observations, &c. on Shakspear [Rambler, No. 60.] I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness, on some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable peculiarities, and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may...haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, Ins fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable peculiarities, and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may...haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...tradition. We know how few can potirtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind...easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may he lost in imparting it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original."... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...delineate him without reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example : " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge,...haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...grosser features of his mind ; and it may he easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may he , that he was himself afterwards more successful in...his enquiries than his friend. That in this justl [flambier, No. 60.] I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness, on some... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...tradition. We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind...succession of copies will lose all resemblance of tho original.' [Rambler, No. 60.] I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...delineate him without reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example. ' If the biographer writes from personal knowledge,...haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
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We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it, and how... 
