 | James Boswell - 1874 - 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...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 detail... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...deeorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill, but is common to humankind. 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 - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 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...copies will lose all resemblance of the original." [Rambler, No. 60.] I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness, on some... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 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...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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...in their 28 tragic dress, and endeavours to hide the man that he may produce a hero. Idler, No. 84. IF the biographer writes from personal knowledge and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1889 - 296 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features ot his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much...copies will lose all resemblance of the original." 1 I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness, on some occasions, of my... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features ot his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much...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... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser feature* ; 3 vH D TY .^ f E~ ě mYO b 7D5] ... } $ t- * > } y~> . F t {dV#I h ,ʼn0& [Rambler, No. 6a] I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness on some occasions... | |
 | Hector C. Macpherson - Authors, English - 1897 - 172 pages
...usual forcible manner Johnson goes to the heart of this question when he says in the Rambler .,—' 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... 
