 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 sidor
...great confidence, said to him, after *> few numbers of the Rambler had come ont, ' I thought тегу well of you before ; but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this.' Distant praise, from whatever quarter, U not so delightful as that of a wife... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 sidor
...it would have been better to have left blanks than to write nonsense. 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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 sidor
...whose verdict went for much with her devoted husband, said to him, after she had read a few numbers, " I thought very well of you before: but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this." An edition of the essays was published almost simultaneously at Edinburgh,... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 sidor
...whose verdict went for much with her devoted husband, said to him, after she had read a few numbers, " I thought very well of you before : but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this." An edition of the essays was published almost simultaneously at Edinburgh,... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 sidor
...with gratification a remark that his wife made to him after a few numbers of the Rambler had appeared: "I thought very well of you before; but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this." The last number of the Rambler appeared on 14th March 1752, and three days... | |
 | 1877 - 814 sidor
...received most delight from the opinion of his wife, who said to him, after a few numbers had 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,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 824 sidor
...whose judgment and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers 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 that of a wife... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 sidor
...aud taste he had great confidence, said tc^iim, after a few numbers of the Kambler 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 - 1884 - 742 sidor
...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 Hay - 1884 - 376 sidor
...the man, but also his writings. After a few numbers of "The Rambler" had come out she said to him, " I thought very well of you before ; but I did not imagine you could have written anything equal to this." " Distant praise," says JOHNSON, "from whatever quarter, 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. 
