 The writers accepted as authorities for the obscurer portion are found to be practically worthless, and the defect is not supplied by the later and greater biographers. Johnson did him no kind of justice because of too little liking for him ; and Scott,...  Owen Gwynne's Great Work: A Novel - Pagina 121di Lady Augusta Noel - 1876 - 113 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1875 - 854 pagine
...Johnson did him no kind of justice because of too little liking for him ; and Scott, with much heartier liking as well as a generous admiration, had too much...complete the tribute begun by those distinguished men." . . . The Ath&uziim sees no reason why Merimee's "Letters to a New Inconnue " should have been published... | |
 | John Forster - 1875 - 530 pagine
...and greater biographers. Johnson did him no kind of justice because of too little liking for him ; and Scott, with much hearty liking as well as a generous...complete the tribute begun by those distinguished men." — Author's Pre/ace. A THIRD SERIES OF LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH CHURCH. FROM THE CAPTIVITY... | |
 | John Forster - 1875 - 524 pagine
...and greater Biographers. Johnson did him no kind of justice because of too little liking for lim ; and Scott, with much hearty liking as well as a generous admiration, had ;oo much other work to do. Thus, notwithstanding noble passages in both iiempirs, and Scott's pervading... | |
 | John Forster - 1876 - 498 pagine
...and greater biographers. Johnson did him no kind of justice because of too little liking for him ; and Scott, with much hearty liking as well as a generous...complete the tribute begun by those distinguished men. Some such preface seemed necessary to so full an account of Swift's least important years as the present... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1876 - 456 pagine
...and greater biographers. Johnson did him no kind of justice because of too little liking for him ; and Scott, with much hearty liking as well as a generous...notwithstanding noble passages in both memoirs, and Scotf s pervading tone of healthy manly wisdom, it is left to aii inferior hand to attempt to complete... | |
 | John Forster - 1876 - 504 pagine
...Johnson did him no kind of justice because of too little liking for him ; and Scott, with much hearty j liking as well as a generous admiration, had too much...passages in both memoirs, and Scott's pervading tone of healthv, manly wisdom, it is left to an inferior hand to attempt to complete the tribute begun bv those... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pagine
...and greater biographers. Johnson did him no kind of justice, because of too little liking for him ; and Scott, with much hearty liking, as well as a generous...complete the tribute begun by those distinguished men.' Mr. Forster lived to publish only one volume. We may add that the biographer was successful in life.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1881 - 358 pagine
...greater biographers. Johnson did him no kind of justice because of his too little liking for him ; and Scott, with much hearty liking as well as a generous...complete the tribute begun by those distinguished men." Mr. Forster tells us that more than a hundred and fifty new letters had been placed at his disposal.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pagine
...as well as incredible." " Johnson did him no kind of justice because of too little liking for him; and Scott, with much hearty liking as well as a generous admiration, had too much other work to do." Forsters Werk leidet indessen an zwei Mangeln : Erstens lasst sich der Verfasser durch die Begeisterung... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 526 pagine
...and greater biographers. Johnson did him no kind of justice, because of too little liking for him ; and Scott, with much hearty liking, as well as a generous...inferior hand to attempt to complete the tribute begun by these illustrious men. — Preface to Life of Swift. THE LITERARY PROFESSION AND THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT.... | |
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