 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 páginas
...editor." We then went to Trinity College, where he introduced me to Mr. Thomas Warton, with whom we pafied a part of the evening. We talked of biography.—JOHNSON....live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactnefs and difcrimination; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 páginas
...Mr. Thomas Warton, with whom we pafled a part of the evening. We talked or biography. — JOHNSON. " It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactnefs and difcrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 páginas
...of want of attention, if he died at all by that book." Again recurring to biography, Johnfon faid, " It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactnefs and diferimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 páginas
...Mr. Thomas Warton, with whom we passed a part of the evening. We talked of Biography. — JOHNSON. " It is rarely well executed. They only who live with...some memoirs of his Lordship, could tell me scarcely any thing."3 I said, Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written, as he had been so much connected... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 páginas
...of want of attention, if he died at all by that book." Again recurring to biography, Johnson said, " It is rarely well executed. They only who live with...few people who have lived with a man know what to rem.irk about him. The chaplain of a late Bishop, whom I was to assist in writing some memoirs of his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 páginas
...Mr. Thomas Warton, with whom we passed a part of the evening. We talked of biography. — JOHNSON. " It is rarely well executed. They only who live with...any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few VOL. it. HH people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him. The chaplain of a late... | |
 | James Field Stanfield - 1813 - 402 páginas
...his examination. Doctor Johnson remarks, that biography is rarely well executed. They only, he adds, who live with a man, can write his life with any genuine...exactness and discrimination ; and few people who live with a man know what to remark about him. * The chaplain of a deceased bishop, whom he was to... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 páginas
...want of attention, if he died at all by that book." Again recurring to biography, Johnson said, ," It is rarely well executed. They only who live with...some memoirs of his Lordship, could tell me scarcely any thing." A gentleman said, Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should he written, as he had been so much connected... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 384 páginas
...man's own making." At another time, he, Mr. Thomas Warton, and Boswell, talked of biography. JOHNSON. " It. is rarely well executed. They only who live with...some memoirs of his lordship, could tell me scarcely any thing." BOSWELL. " Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written, as he was so much, connected with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 páginas
...Warton, and Boswel], talked of biography. JOHNSON. " It is rarely well executed. They only who lire with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness...some memoirs of his lordship, could tell me scarcely any thing." BOSWELL. " Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written, as he was so much connected with... | |
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It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him. 
