 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 páginas
...1181, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 páginas
...1781, Johnson at last completed his "Lives of 1,he 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." 1 In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them: " Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account: — "Some time When public villany, too strong for Justice, Shows...front, the harbinger of ruin, Can brave Leontius call In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them: — "Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
 | 1890 - 846 páginas
...importance belonging to this time of his kingship. Some time in March 1781, he writes, 'I finished the Lires of the Poets, which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily...unwilling to work and working with vigour and haste.' Meanwhile, his social circle began to be sadly invaded and broken. Goldsmith died in 1774, Garrick... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1891 - 890 páginas
...works of any importance belonging to this time of his kingship. Some time in March 1781, he writes, ' I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in...unwilling to work and working with vigour and haste.' Meanwhile, his social circle began to be sadly invaded and broken. Goldsmith died in 1774, Garrick... | |
 | Sir Claude Phillips - 1894 - 474 páginas
...itself? It was in March 1781 that the Doctor at last completed his Lives of the Poets, which, he says, " I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." It is the contemptuous tone adopted by the autocrat in the Life of Lord Lyttleton that gave such offence... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 páginas
...Holy Spirit, but protect and bless me, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. 140. Apr. 13, GOOD FR1DAY, 1781. I forgot my Prayer and resolutions, till two...and working with vigour and haste *. On Wednesday n, was buried my dear Friend Thrale who died on Wednesday, 4 ; and with him were buried many of my... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 páginas
...all his works by which he is best known, — the 'Lives of the English Poets.' "I wrote it," he says, "in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily; unwilling to work, and working with vigor and haste." The indolence into which he seemed to have sunk was more apparent than real. That... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 páginas
...&c.) " 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." m In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
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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. 
