| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...Johnson, however, should not here be forgotten ; who declared, that " Addison wrote Budgell's papers, at least mended them so much, that he made them almost his own *." Yel the Doctor's authority, it must be recollected, is merely that of tradition ; nor is it likely... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 422 pages
...Johnson, however, should not here be forgotten ; who declared, that " Addison wrote Budgell's papers, at least mended them so much, that he made them almost his own *." Yet the Doctor's authority, it must be recollected, is merely that of tradition ; nor is it likely... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge, Johnson said, "She is better employed at her toilet than using her...cheeks, than blackening other people's characters." Mr. Boswell tells us, that a clergyman had come to submit some poetical pieces to Johnson's revision.... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pages
...become very fond of dress. sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge : — JOHNSON. " She is better employed at her toilet, than using her...cheeks, than blackening other people's characters." 177S. He told us that " Addison wrote Bugdell's papers in the Spectator, at least mended them so much,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 pages
...Dr. JOHNSON reports, from traditional authority, be true, that " ADDISON wrote BUDGELL'S papers, or at least mended them so much that he made them almost his own*." Besides these twenty-eight papers attributed to him in consequence of the signature, he is, in the... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...and even put on rouge : — Johnson. She ia better employed at her toilet, than using her pen. It i» better she should be reddening her own cheeks, than...people's characters.. He told us that " Addison wrote Bugdell's papers in the Spectator, at least mended them so mach, that he made them almost his own ;... | |
| John Selden - 1818 - 682 pages
...late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge, Johnson said, "She is better employed at her toilet than using her...cheeks, than blackening other people's characters." Mr. Boswell tells us, that a clergyman had come to submit some poetical pieces to Johnson's revision.... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...lute become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge : — Johnson. She is better employed at her toilet, than using her...than blackening other people's characters. He told us t Inn " Addison wrote Bugdell's papers in the Spectator, at least mended them so much, that he made... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pages
...late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge — JOHNSON. " She is better employed at her toilet than using her...cheeks, than blackening other people's characters." Johnson arraigned the modern politics of this country, as entirely devoid of all principle of whatever... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pages
...was not profound ; but his morality, his humour, and his elegance of writing, set him very high." " Addison wrote Budgell's papers in the Spectator, at...them so much, that he made them almost his own ; and Draper, Tonson's partner, assured Mrs. Johnson, that the much admired epilogue to the Distressed Mother,... | |
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