 | 1874 - 382 pages
...might have deterred me for ever from making any further attempts. Fortunately, however, I remained upon the field not wholly discomfited, and was soon rewarded by hearing some of his conversation." Boswell closes his narrative thus : — " I had • for a part of the evening been left alone with... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 478 pages
...which it was produced. " ' People,' he remarked, ' may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. Uncommon...require uncommon opportunities for their exertion.' "' The notion of liberty amuses the people of England, and helps to keep off the tedium vita. When... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - 1875 - 518 pages
...all ! " CHAPTER VIII. THEY MEET AN AUTHOR. " People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. Uncommon...require uncommon opportunities for their exertion." DR. JOHNSON. MRS. HENFREY in taking leave of Amelia had expressed her pleasure at the prospect of shortly... | |
 | 1875 - 930 pages
...! " CHAPTER VIH. — THEY MEET AN AUTHOR. " People may be taken in wce, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. Uncommon...require uncommon opportunities for their exertion." DR. JOHNSON. MRS. HENFREY in taking leave of Amelia had expressed her pleasure at the prospect of shortly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...and accurate observation of the living world. People may be taken in once who imagine tbat an author is greater in private life than other men. Uncommon...require uncommon opportunities for their exertion. A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large... | |
 | 1875 - 972 pages
..." CHAPTER VIII. — THEY MEET AN AUTHOR. " People m:iy be taken in ever, who imagine that nn author is greater in private life than other men. Uncommon parts require uncommon opportunities tor their exertion." DK. JOHNSON. MRS. HEXFREY in taking leave of Amelia had expressed her pleasure... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 pages
...might have deterred me for ever from-making any further attempts. Fortunately, however, I remained upon the field not wholly discomfited ; and was soon...rewarded by hearing some of his conversation, of which I preservec the following short minute, without marking the questions and observations by which it was... | |
 | 1882 - 638 pages
...Osiris, chap. 24. Dr. Johnson once observed, "People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. Uncommon...require uncommon opportunities for their exertion." — BOSWELL: Life, 1763. "All celebrated people," said Napoleon, "lose on a close view." I saw some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...know not, madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much." "People," he remarked, "may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. Uncommon parts require uncommon opportunites for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 pages
...the slightest breath of censure from a stranger ?] AGE 54.] JOHNSON'S FIRST TALK WITH BOSWF.LL. 299 field not wholly discomfited ; and was soon rewarded...barbarous society, superiority of parts is of real consequence. Great strength or great wisdom is of much value to an individual. But in more polished... | |
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... that the hope which I had long indulged of obtaining his acquaintance was blasted. And, in truth, had not my ardour been uncommonly strong, and my resolution uncommonly persevering, so rough a reception might have deterred me for ever from making... 
