 | William Ernest Henley - 1897 - 264 페이지
...alive to the enduring merits of his achievement. 'I will venture to say,' he writes, 'that he (Johnson) will be seen in this ' work more completely than any man who hag ' ever lived.' He had his own idea of biography; he had demonstrated its value triumphantly in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 페이지
...and thought; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to "live o'er each scene" with him, as he actually advanced through the several...preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that he will be » Brit. Mus. 4320, Ascough's CataL Sloane MSS. seen in this work more completely than any man who... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 540 페이지
...and thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to "live o'er each scene" with him, as he actually advanced through the several...seen in this work more completely than any man who .s ever yet lived. And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write, not his panegyrick,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 페이지
...thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to ' live o'er each scene ' at the Somerset coffee-house in the Strand, where...by the Oxford coach. 1776] MR. GWYN THE ARCHITECT 1 profess to write, not his panegyrick, which must be all praise, but his Life ; which, great and good... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 306 페이지
...to the enduring merits of his achievement. ' I will venture to say,' he writes, ' that he (Johnson) will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever lived.' He had his own idea of biography; he had demonstrated its value triumphantly in the Tour which,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 페이지
...and thought; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to "live o'er each scene" with him, as he actually advanced through the several...preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that he will be in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived. And he will be seen as he really... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 페이지
...and thought, by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to ' live o'er each scene ' with him, as he actually advanced through the several...more completely than any man who has ever yet lived. to write not his panegyrick, which must be all praise, but his Life ; which, great and good as he was,... | |
 | Jesse Shire Myer - 1912 - 360 페이지
...and thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to 'live o'er each scene' with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life. . . . And he will be seen as he really was, for I profess to write, not his panegyrick, which must... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1915 - 332 페이지
...It is hardly necessary to labour this point. Boswell himself writes near the opening of his book : ' I will venture to say that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has yet lived.' In this sentence Boswell wrote his own panegyric, as in his reply to Miss More he had pronounced... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 페이지
...and thought; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to "live o'ef each scene" with him, as he actually advanced through the several...more completely than any man who has ever yet lived. Having said thus much by way of introduction, I commit the following pages to the candor of the public.... | |
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I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life, than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order, but interweaving what he privately wrote, and said, and thought ; by which mankind are enabled, as it were, to... 
