 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 150 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1904 - 1446 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... | |
 | William Henry Sheran - Criticism - 1905 - 602 pages
...without reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and example. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to...overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 712 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 626 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 - Authors, English - 1922 - 562 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... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1927 - 378 pages
...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 interest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Literary Collections - 1968 - 400 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... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 655 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...curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, 10. Jan de Witt(1625—72), famous Dutch statesman. The comment on him is from Sir William Temple's... | |
 | Doris B. Wallace, Howard E. Gruber - Psychology - 1992 - 320 pages
...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... | |
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