 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...completed in March, 1781. Altogether it employed him for nearly four yearSi ' I wrote it,' he says, ' in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.' The moral purpose to be served by his ' Lives' was always present to his mind, and he hoped they '... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...completed in March, 1781. Altogether it employed him for nearly four yearsj ' I wrote it,' he says, ' in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.' The moral purpose to be served by his ' Lives ' was always present to his mind, and he hoped they '... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 páginas
...completed in March, 1781. Altogether it em-ployed him for nearly four years. ' I wrote it,' he says, ' in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with rigour and haste.' The moral purpose to be served by his ' Lives' was always present to his mind, and... | |
 | 1865 - 496 páginas
...incorrect its principles and thought, however erroneous it may be. " Some time in 1781," he says, " I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote...way — dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, yet working with vigour and haste." The concluding portion was issued in six volumes. This work is... | |
 | 1899 - 312 páginas
...the world his best and most noted work, the " Lives of the English Poets." '•! wrote it," he sayg, "in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigor and haste." His house became the rendezvous of men of letters, and he counted among his intimate... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...his Lita of the Poets, of which he gives this account : — ' Some time in March I finished The Lires In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : ' Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 páginas
...Poeti, of which he gives this account : — ' Some time in March I finished The Lires of the Poett, which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...Co In 1781 Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account : " Sometime in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,'...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
..." In 1781 Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets.™ of which he gives this account : " Sometime in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,'...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... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 páginas
...CONCLUDED—CHARACTERISTIC LETTER — THE DOCTOR AN EXECUTOR—CONVERSATIONS. (I 7 8t.) "SOME rime in March (1781) I finished 'The Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. * * Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety." This was Johnson's last... | |
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Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. 
