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" Those relations are therefore commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another, commonly dwells most upon conspicuous events, lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The Adventurer and Idler - Página 399
por Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...regular composition a. Of these 1 Idler, No. 84. BOSWELL.— In this paper he says : 'Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another . . . lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity . . . and endeavours to hide the...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...regular composition'. Of these ' Idler, No. 84. BOSWELL. — In this paper he says: 'Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another . . . lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity . . . and endeavours to hide the...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volumen2

1802 - 522 páginas
...levelled with the general surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how lie was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince, but how he becarne discontented with himself. Those relations are therefore commonly of most value in which the...
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Select British Classics, Volumen10

1803 - 222 páginas
...levelled with the general surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was. made happy; not how he lost the favour of his prince,...commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own'story. He that recounts the life of another, commonly dwells most upon conspicuous events, lessens...
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Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, Volumen1

Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 páginas
...affirm, that no motives of vanity, engendered by 1 Bacon's Works, 4to. i. 45. b ' Those relations are commonly of most value, in which the writer tells his own story.' Idler, No. 84. an overweening persuasion of great accomplishments or distinguished virtues, have impelled...
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Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter

1808 - 512 páginas
..., -; Our great moralist admires a life in which a man is his own biographer. " Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favorite at a distance decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragic dress,...
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Works, Volumen7

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 páginas
...levelled with the general surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince,...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volumen7

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 páginas
...levelled with the general surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince,...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in _J their tragick...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen7

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 páginas
...levelled with the general surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince,...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 páginas
...levelled with the general surface of life, which tell not how any man became great, but how he was made happy; not how he lost the favour of his prince,...the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance, decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragic...
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