...1781, Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account : " Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste."* In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them: *' Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend...

..., Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account : " Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets.' which...hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste."0 In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written, I hope, in such a manner as...

...Critical Prefaces, in 5 vols. 12mo. "Some time in March," he says, in a memorandum of that year, " I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." * In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them, " Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend...

...Lives of the Poets were published, and the remainder in 1781, which he wrote by his own confession, " dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." He had, however, performed so much more than was expected, that his employers presented him with an...

...Lives of the Poets were published, and the remainder in 1781, which he wrote by his own confession, " dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." He had, however, performed so much more than was expected, that his employers presented him with an...

...the English Poets, which he completed in 1781. " Some time in March," says he in his Meditations, " I finished the Lives of the Poets: which I wrote in...usual way, dilatorily and hastily; unwilling to work, but working with vigour and haste." Though now upwards of seventy years of age, yet in this last great...

...of two hundred guineas was certainly not too liberal. But though he wrote (by his own confession) " dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste," he performed so much more than was expected, that his employers generously presented him with an additional...

...at last completed his « Lives of the Poets,' of which he gives this account : Sometime in March 1 finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written I hope, in sucha manner a» m*y lend...

...this account : Sometime in March 1 finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which 1 wrote in my usual^way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. In u memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written I hope, in sucha manner as miy tend to...

...1781, Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account: "Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which...hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste."1 In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written, I hope, in such a manner as...