 | James Boswell - 1858
...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 anything equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as 1 I doubt if... | |
 | 1859
...there was one which was especially grateful to its author. After a few numbers his wife saidtohim, ' I thought very well of you before, but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this.' Her cheering commendation was »oon to cease. The ' Rambler' terminated with... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859
...Rambler,'there was one which was especially grateful to its author. After a few numbers his wife said to him, ' I thought very well of you before, but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this.' Her cheering commendation was soon to cease. The ' Rambler' terminated with... | |
 | 1859
...there was one which was especially grateful to its author. After a few numbers his wife said to him, ' I thought very well of you before, but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this.' Her cheering commendation was soon to cease. The ' Rambler ' terminated with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 874 sidor
...and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler had come out, " son has there been, both for himself and his country,...rejoice that it did not succeed, as he might prob Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and... | |
 | 1860 - 767 sidor
...received most delight from the opinion of his wife, who said to him, after a few numbers bad come out, " I thought very well of you before ; but I did not...imagine you could have written any thing equal to this." Many of the characters in The Rambler are said to have been drawn from life, particularly that of Prospero,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860
...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 anything equal to this." Distant praise, from whatever quarter, is not so delightful as 1 I doubt if... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 874 sidor
...confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of the Rambler had come out, " I thought very well of vou 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... | |
 | 1871
...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 anything equal to this !" " Distant praise, from wliatever quarter (said Johnson), is not so delightful... | |
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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. 
