 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 страници
...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...this work more completely than any man who has ever yel lived. And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write not his panegyric, which must... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 722 страници
...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. 1 Brit. Mus. 4320. Ayscough's Catal. Sloane MSS. And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 страници
...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. 1 Brit. Mus. 4320. Ayscough's Catal. Sloane MSS. ' And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 страници
...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. 1 Brit. Mus. 4320, Ayscough's Catal. Sloane MSS. INTROD.] BOSWELL ON BIOGRAPHY. 5 And he will be seen... | |
 | 1886 - 218 страници
...prefatory estimate of his work, where he says, " As it is, I will venture to say that he [Dr. Johnson] will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived." Boswell, thinking himself greatly superior to Goldsmith, says, when the latter obtained an invitation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 576 страници
...thought ; by which mankind arc enabled as it were to see him live, and to ' live o'er each scene2 ' with him, as he actually advanced through the several...more completely than any man who has ever yet lived 3. And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write, not his panegyrick, which must be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 страници
...and thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were'to see him live, and to 'live o'er each scene3' with him, as he actually advanced through the several...was, he might have been almost entirely preserved, f As it is, I will venture to say that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who... | |
 | 1887 - 216 страници
...his work, where he says, " As it is, I will venture to say that he [Dr. Johnson] will be seen in l\ this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived." Boswell, thinking himself greatly superior to Goldsmith, says, when the latter obtained an invitation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 страници
...pronounced and emphatic than the words used by Boswell in the introduction to the " Life " : — " I will venture to say that he will be seen in this...more completely than any man who has ever yet lived." There is a noble and just self-confidence in these words. The task of correcting, amending, and adding... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 страници
...more pronounced and emphatic than the words used by Boswell XYI in the introduction to the "Life": — "I will venture to say that he will be seen in this...more completely than any man who has ever yet lived." There is a noble and just self-confidence in these words. The task of correcting, amending, and adding... | |
| |
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... 
