 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 - Página 2791920Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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