 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - 320 páginas
...should "live o'er each scene" with Johnson, that he might as it were "see him live" ; and then adds, "Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost completely preserved." Inscription in Boswell's copy qfjaussin's Memoire de la Corse " the best-known... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 páginas
...thought ; by which mankind are enabled, as it were, to see him live, and to " live o'er each scene " with him, as he actually advanced through the several...work, more completely than any man who has ever yet lived.1 — And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write, not his panegyric, which... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 páginas
...and thought; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him alive, and to "live o'er each scene" n From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing BIOGRAPHY that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived. And... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 páginas
...in writing of his friend,—that mankind might "see him live" and ventured to add that Johnson would tted, is innocent, and human nature is preserved by our following the lead No biographer was ever more inspired by his subject than was Boswell. During years of close intimacy... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 páginas
...him an exact report of the real life of an actual man, Samuel Johnson, who, he confidently boasts, "will be seen in this work more completely than any...ever yet lived. And he will be seen as he really was; . . ." To support this claim to literal truth, Boswell offers a great deal of evidence for the accuracy... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 páginas
...allowing its readers, as Boswell says at the outset, "to see [Johnson] live, and to 'live o'er each scene' with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life" (1 :3o). Paul Alkon (2.46) notes that Boswell may expect the reader to recall the rest of Pope's line... | |
 | Marlene Kadar - 1992 - 250 páginas
...objectives in his life of Johnson: to enable the reader 'to see him live,' and to ' "live o'er each scene" with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life' (22). If the coming of age of auto/biography coincided with the emergence of the novel in the eighteenth... | |
 | David Simpson - 1995 - 218 páginas
...incident is a mode "by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to 'live o'er each scene' with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life" (22) The very redundancy of many of the recorded incidents works toward vraisemhlance, toward realization... | |
 | Peter Steele - 1998 - 324 páginas
...St Edmundsbury Press Ltd Burv St Edmunds, Suffolk In memoriam BILL TURRALL JOHN EMERY GEORGE FRASER 'I will venture to say that he will be seen in this work ... as he really was; for I profess to write not his panegyrick, which must be all praise, but his... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 páginas
...and thought; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to 'live o'er each scene' with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life. (Life, I, 3o) It has been noticed before now that the words in quotation marks are not given in full.... | |
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I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life, than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order, but interweaving what he privately wrote, and said, and thought ; by which mankind are enabled, as it were, to... 
