| James Boswell - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...example4. ' If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger least his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 146
...writer rather than with Addison. (Millar.) 5. Biography. — There is danger lest his [the biographer's] interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness,...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. ... If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge,... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 1590
...example. ' If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick made a player a higher character.' SCOTT. 'And he...every night with the plaudits of a thousand in his : CONVERSATION BEST DISPLAYS CHARACTER 21 hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they... | |
| James Boswell - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example. " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. Thereare many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...15 and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to...danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or 20 his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 1178
...reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example. "If the biographer rest dayHN interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal,... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...should be uncritical. It was Dr. Johnson, a master of the art, who warned us that, " if the biographer writes from personal knowledge and makes haste to...fidelity and tempt him to conceal if not to invent ". But Dr. Johnson also believed, as Morley did, in contemporary work. " If a Life be delayed till... | |
| Doris B. Wallace, Howard E. Gruber - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 317
...of complete detachment? Samuel Johnson said, "If the biographer writes from personal knowledge . . . there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude,...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent" (1968, p. 114). Yet like Boswell's biography of Johnson, many great nineteenth-century biographies... | |
| 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 272
..."nothing extenuate. Xor set down aught in malice." There is danger, wrote Johnson. lest the biographer's "interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness,...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. . . .If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge,... | |
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