...fine passage." JOHNSON. "Yes, Sir: there was another fine passage too, which he struck out : ' When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...indulge your delicacy too much ; or you will be a tete & tete man all your life." 1 "Dr.Burney," says M alone, "in a note by Dr. Johnson; not recollecting...

...man who is zealous for nothing.' There was another fine passage, too, which he struck out : ' When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false.' " (BoswELL vol. vii., p. 24.) and unfortunately, as I had neither, I suffered the cruelest mortification,...

...passage which Goldsmith struck out of his " Vicar of Wakefield." Doctor Johnson mentions it : " When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false." The greatest genius in literature does but express for the people what they already know. He gives...

...Conquer, " old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." The same author once said: " When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false." Of wellnigh universal application was the opinion uttered later by Daniel Webster with reference to...

...of Apollo's, and — holed coats should be looked to. " When I was a young man," says Goldsmith, " being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually...I found that, generally, what was new was false." And if and •when our so-called New Poets attain to years of discretion they will make much the same...

...fine passage." JOHNSON: "Yes, sir: there was another fine passage, too, which he struck out: 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...of whom I had not a good opinion. JOHNSON: "But you mu~t not indulge your delicacy too much; or you will be a tete-a-tete man all your life." 57 Of his...

...fine passage." JOHNSON: "Yes, sir: there was another fine passage, too, which he struck out: 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But 1 soon gave this over; for, I found that generally- what was new was false.' " I said I did not like...

...enough the quotation for the day, at the top of the page on which I began it, reads as follows: 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false. - Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol. VII, chap. viii.' LI SIR LANDON RONALE) or A Little Crime WE have...

...Conquer, "old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." The same author once said: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...for I found that generally what was new was false." Of well-nigh universal application was the opinion uttered later by Daniel Webster with reference to...

...which, according to Boswell, were deleted from The Vicar of Wakeßeld, may serve as an apology. 'When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself,...over, for I found that generally what was new was false.'1 Shakespeare's greatness as a poet has never been in doubt in English-speaking countries; the...