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
| Doris B. Wallace, Howard E. Gruber - Psychology - 1992 - 317 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... | |
| William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...the Rambler. 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 - 1998 - 1540 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 see many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
| Carl Edmund Rollyson - Authors, English - 2005 - 321 pages
...and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original. [11] 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... | |
| 1905 - 272 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,... | |
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