| Samuel Johnson - Meditations - 1806 - 210 pages
...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... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...account : " 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."* In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them: *' Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
| Biography - 1815 - 544 pages
...begun. In 1779 the first four volumes of his Lives of the Poets were published, and the remainder in 1781, which he wrote by his own confession, " dilatorily...in addition to the stipulated sum. As he never was insensible to the pleasure or value of fame, it is not improbable that he was yet more substantially... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 548 pages
...begun. In 1779 the first four volumes of bis Lives of the Poets were published, and the remainder in 1781, which he wrote by his own confession, " dilatorily...in addition to the stipulated sum. As he never was insensible to the pleasure or value of fame, it is not improbable that he was yet more substantially... | |
| Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...says, in a memorandum of that year, " 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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...extent, the stipulated remuneration of two hundred guineas was certainly not too liberal. But though he wrote (by his own confession) " dilatorily and...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste," he performed so much more than was expected, that his employers generously presented him with an additional... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...this account : Sometime in March 1 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 sucha manner ať m*y lend... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 860 pages
...found this paper. 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. On Wednesday 11, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4 ; and with him were buried... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 pages
...found this paper. 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. On Wednesday 11, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4 ; and with him were buried... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...found this paper. Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets, which 1 wrote in my usual way, On Wednesday lltb, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4th ; and with him were... | |
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