 | 1859 - 578 pages
...and say he was a dunce.' A portion of the work was published in 1779, and the remainder was completed in March, 1781. Altogether it employed him for nearly...in such a manner as might tend to the promotion of piety.' Their success was immense. He announced to one of his friends that nothing he ever published... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...say he was a dunce.' A portion of the work was published in 1779, and the remainder was completed iii March, 1781. Altogether it employed him for nearly...in such a manner as might tend to the promotion of piety.' Their success was immense. He announced to one of his friends that nothing he ever published... | |
 | 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 pages
...and the remainder was completed in March, 1781. Altogether it employed him for nearly four yearSi ' I wrote it,' he says, ' in my usual way, dilatorily...in such a manner as might tend to the promotion of piety.' Their success was immense. He announced to one of his friends that nothing he ever published... | |
 | 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 pages
...and the remainder was completed in March, 1781. Altogether it employed him for nearly four yearsj ' I wrote it,' he says, ' in my usual way, dilatorily...in such a manner as might tend to the promotion of piety.' Their success was immense. He announced to one of his friends' that nothing he ever published... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 pages
...'and say he was a dunce.' A portion of the work was published in 1779, and the remainder was completed in March, 1781. Altogether it em-ployed him for nearly...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 182 pages
...two days ago I found this paper. Sometime 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. On Wednesday 11, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4 ; and with him were buried... | |
 | 1899 - 312 pages
...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 - 1874 - 584 pages
...which he gives this account : " Sometime 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."* In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
 | 1877 - 814 pages
...Poets. He completed this work in l/>i I, concluding it with a confession that " be had written it in his usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." In the August of the same year he lost his friend Mr. Thrale, who appointed him one of his executors,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 pages
...these characteristic lives, not finished until 1781, and "which I wrote," as he himself tells -us, "in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigor and haste," we have Johnson mellowed by years, Johnson in his ripeness and plenitude, treating... | |
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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. 
