 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 376 pages
...difficult and thankless study, and to be involved in a perpetual wav with knaveb and fools." There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing...elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant ambition of wit. Th« age of the writer considered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance; for, whenever . written,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...difficult and thankless study, and to be involved in a perpetual war with knaves and fools." There_seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing...with great elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant ambitipjp of wit. The age of the writer considered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance ; for,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 426 pages
...cult and thankless study, and to be involved in a " perpetual war with knaves and fools." There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing...chance. " The Old Bachelor" was written for amusement, iu the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed with great elaborateness of dialogue,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...difficult and thankless study, and to be involved in a perpetual war with knaves and fools." There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done every thing by chance. The Old Batchelor was written for amusement, in the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 446 pages
...difficult and thankless study, and to be involved in a perpetual war with knaves and fools." There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done every thing by chance. The Old Batchelor was written for amusement, in the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...difficult and thankless study, and to be involved in a perpetual war with knaves and fools." There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing...chance. The Old Bachelor was written for amusement, iii the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed with great elaborateness of dialogue,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 pages
...and to be involved in a perpetual war with knaves and fools.' . -, • There seems to be a stranga affectation in authors of appearing to have done every...chance. ' The Old Bachelor' was written for amusement iu the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed with great elaborateness of dialogue,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...difficult and thankless study, and to be involved in a perpetual war with knaves and fools." There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing...written for amusement in the languor of convalescence. Vet it is apparently composed with great elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant ambition of wit The... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...page 156. 1 " There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. The Old Bachelor was written for amusement...elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant ambition of wit/'^JoHHBON. Lives of the Poets. illness, when he was an "excellent young man." Richelieu at eighty... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...a strange aftectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. The Old Baclielor was written for amusement in the languor of convalescence....elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant ambition of wit." — JOHNSON. Lives of the Poets. Shall only sounded be. But if you long to know, Then look round yonder... | |
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. The Old Bachelor was written for amusement, in the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed with great elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant... 
