 writes from personal knowledge, and makes 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 to conceal if not to invent.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6831927Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840
...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...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 failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | Military art and science - 1831 - 608 pages
...his disposition is imprinted on the hearts of all who knew him. " If the biographer," says Johnson, " writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to...curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity." Of the influence of the latter sentiment, the writer of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843
...barbarously of the phrase noble Gentleman, because either word included the sense of both. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 622 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...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...overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if uot to invent. There arc many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their... | |
 | Frederick Charles Husenbeth - 1860 - 356 pages
...writer is fully aware of the truth of what our great moralist also observes, " that if the bio" grapher writes from personal knowledge, and " makes haste...fidelity, and tempt '* him to conceal, if not to invent." J This danger it will be his study to escape, by keeping steadily in view that he is not merely to... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 980 pages
...recommended, both by his precept and his example : — " If the biographer writes from personal knoir! ledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there...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 tailings of their fiiends, even... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 948 pages
...biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes hast e to gratify the public curiosity, there U danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower hiğ fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There ğre irany who think it an act of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 604 pages
...example: " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, 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 failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill, but is common to humankind. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to...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 failings of their friends, even when... | |
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