 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 - English essays - 1889 - 296 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 - English essays - 1889 - 308 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... | |
 | Hector C. Macpherson - Authors, English - 1897 - 172 pages
...manner Johnson goes to the heart of this question when he says in the Rambler :—' 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... | |
 | 1899 - 396 pages
..."nothing extenuate. Nor 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 922 pages
...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. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 632 pages
...from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest hia interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 538 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 - 1901 - 206 pages
...original. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 526 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 pages
...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,... | |
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