...related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all opportunities of recommending him, and asserted that “the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.” Nor was Mr. Savage admitted to his acquaintance only, but to his confidence, of which he sometimes...

...coauthor of the Spectator papers and one of Savage's early patrons: “the inhumanity of [Savage's] Mother had given him a right to find every good Man his Father.” 5 Let us examine one more example from traditional English biography. Boswell's Life of Johnson is...

...patronage of Savage was ‘upon his promise to lay aside his design of exposing the cruelty of his mother,' the great biographer has forgotten that he himself...story had been told several years before in The Plain Thater; from which he quotes this strong saying of the generous Sir Richard Steele, that ‘the inhumanity...

...related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all opportunities of recommending him, and asserted that 'the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.' [30] Nor was Mr. Savage admitted to his acquaintance only, but to his confidence, of which he sometimes...