 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 639 sidor
...and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of The Ratnbler had come out, ' I thought very well of you before, but I did not imagine you could have written any thing equal to this.' Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817
...judgment and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rumbier came out, " I thought very well of you before; but I did not imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820
...said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler came out, " I thought very well of you before; but 1 did not imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821
...; but it would have been better to have left blanks than to write nonsense. Rambler had come out, " I thought very well of you before ; but I did not...imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822
...and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler had come out, " I thought very well of you before ; but I did not...imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822
...and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler had come out, " I thought very well of you before ; but I did not...imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826
...and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler had come out, " I thought very well of you before ; but I did not...imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 580 sidor
...and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler had come out, " me." — " Come (said I,) if you'll let me negocíate for you, I will be answerable that all shall tías." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831
...and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler had come out, " I thought very well of you before ; but I did not...imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831
...and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler had come out, " I thought very well of you before ; but I did not...imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
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Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and esteems. Her approbation may be said to "come home to his bosom ;" and being so near, its effect is most sensible and permanent. 
