My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement, like those which we find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving... MacMillan's Magazine - Page 194edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure. A 2 In In this minute kind of History, the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...find in the French miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character ; but 1 have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure. In this minute kind of history, the succession of facts is not easily discovered; and I am not without... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure. In this minute kind of History, the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 872 pages
...find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure. In this minute kind of History, the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...wejind in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure. In this minute kind of History, the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure. In this minute kind of history the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and ageneral character; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure. In this minute kind of history the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 476 pages
...find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates, and a general character; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure.'' D3 spect. In this be resembled Quintilian, who tells us, that in the composition of his Institutions... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character : but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure. In this minute kind of History, the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...in the I rench Miscellanies, containing a few dates, and a general character ; but I have been led am not much richer than when you left me ; and, »hat ia worse, my omission • Thus:—" In the Life of Waller, Mr. Nichols will find a reference to the Parliamentary History,... | |
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