 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 страници
...will write a life well must imitate you.' Horace Walpole to Mason ; Walpole's Letters,\\. 211. ' ' I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography,...publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conIndeed Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life, than not only relating... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 страници
...will write a life well must imitate you.' Horace Walpole to Mason ; Walpole's Letters, vi. 211. ' ' I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography,...of Johnson's "visible progress through the world, »nd of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conNot a panegyrick, but a Life.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 474 страници
...Life of Whitehead is not a life at all, for there is neither a letter nor a saying from first to last. I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography,...conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared. I have been wretchedly dissipated,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 464 страници
...Life of Whitehead is not a life at all, for there is neither a letter nor a saying from first to last. I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography,...conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared. I have been wretchedly dissipated,... | |
 | 1857 - 782 страници
...once not unfounded. The world will own that he was not far wrong when he wrote to his friend, — " I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography,...through the world, and of his publications, but a tttem of his mind in hi* letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can he conceived, and... | |
 | 1857 - 876 страници
...once not unfounded. The world will own that he was not far wrong when he wrote to his friend, — " I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography,...progress through the world, and of his publications, bnt a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can he conceived,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 страници
...biography .... told with authenticity and in a lively manner." Some time previously he had remarked : "I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography,...progress through the world, and of his publications, hut a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived,... | |
 | 1857 - 758 страници
...of Whitehead is not a life ¡it all, for there is neither a letter nor a saying from first to last. I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography, which gives not only a history of Johnson's risible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a ríero of his mind in his letters... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 страници
...original by design, and not by chance. ' I am absolutely certain,' he writes to his friend Temple, ' that my mode of biography, which gives not only a...conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has yet appeared.' Several persons had reported the conversations... | |
 | 1858 - 594 страници
...original by design, and not by chance. ' I am absolutely certain,7 he writes to his friendTemple, ' that my mode of biography, which gives not only a...conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has yet appeared.' Several persons had reported the conversations... | |
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I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography, which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived,... 
