 There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner: the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes...  Poet Lore - Stran 2791920Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 strani
...confcious. Sir Jofhua Reynolds 4 has has heard him fay, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, ftating what it is to contain, and how it fhould be executed in the moft perfect manner ; the other... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 strani
...22 ' There 338 The Preface to the DICTIONARY. [AD 1755. ' There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any...causes why the execution has not been equal to what the authour promised to himself and to the publick.' How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...the original. Johnson's Works, v. 36. I.— 22 ' There ' There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any...causes why the execution has not been equal to what the authour promised to himself and to the publick.' How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 strani
...was fully conscious. Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, "There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any...causes why the execution has not been equal to what the authour promised to himself and to the publick." - s 2 How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 strani
...was fully conscious. Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any...causes why the execution has not been equal to what the authour promised to himself and to the publick." How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed,... | |
 | 1813 - 662 strani
...man that merit to be preserved. 1 " There are two things," said he, "which I am confident I can «U> very well : one is an introduction to any literary...various causes, why the execution has not been equal to jyhat thp author promised to himself and to the public.'" p. £0. Johnson somewhere tells Boswell,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 strani
...was fully conscious. Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well ; one is an introduction to any...causes why the execution has not been equal to what the authour promised to himself and to the publick." performance, not with those of other individuals,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 strani
...wa-: fully conscions. Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well ; one is an introduction to any literary work, etating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 strani
...was fully conscious. Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any...causes why the execution has not been equal to what the authour promised to himself and to the publick." How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 strani
...was fully conscious. Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any...causes why the execution has not been equal to what the authourpromised to himself and to the publick." * candidly and modestly allowing that he " had not... | |
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