 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 sidor
...likings or aversions. His veracity was, indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even, to severity; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value. A story (says Johnson) should be a specimen of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 sidor
...that ever contended in the lists of declamation ; and perhaps no man ever equalled him in nervous and pointed repartees. His veracity, from the most trivial...so was his heart tender to those who wanted relief, and his soul was susceptible of gratitude and every kind impression. He ha"H a roughness in his manner... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 sidor
...likings or aversions. His veracity was, indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict, even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value. For the rest— That beneficence which, during... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 sidor
...likings or aversions. His veracity was, indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to contend) took off from it's real value. A story, he said, should be a specimen of... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 sidor
...likings or aversions. His veracity was indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value. " A story (says Johnson) should be a specimen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 sidor
...common observers. His veracity was p- 234. indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value. "A story," said Johnson, " should be a specimen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 sidor
...common observers. His veracity was p- 234. indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value. "A story," said Johnson, " should be a specimen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 sidor
...likings or aversions. His veracity was, indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict, even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which, he used to say, took off from its real value. " A story," says Johnson, " should be a specimen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 sidor
...and common observers. His veracity was, indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value. " A story," he said, "should be a specimen of... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 sidor
...that ever contended in the lists of declamation ; and perhaps no man ever equalled him in nervous and pointed repartees. His veracity, from the most trivial...so was his heart tender to those who wanted relief, and his soul was susceptible of gratitude and every kind impression. He had a roughness in his manner... | |
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... no man had stronger likings or aversions. His veracity was indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its... 
