 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...1781, Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account : " Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste."* In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them: *' Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
..., Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account : " Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets.' which...hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste."0 In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written, I hope, in such a manner as... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...Critical Prefaces, in 5 vols. 12mo. "Some time in March," he says, in a memorandum of that year, " I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." * In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them, " Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 544 pages
...Lives of the Poets were published, and the remainder in 1781, which he wrote by his own confession, " dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." He had, however, performed so much more than was expected, that his employers presented him with an... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 548 pages
...Lives of the Poets were published, and the remainder in 1781, which he wrote by his own confession, " dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." He had, however, performed so much more than was expected, that his employers presented him with an... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...the English Poets, which he completed in 1781. " Some time in March," says he in his Meditations, " I finished the Lives of the Poets: which I wrote in...usual way, dilatorily and hastily; unwilling to work, but working with vigour and haste." Though now upwards of seventy years of age, yet in this last great... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...of two hundred guineas was certainly not too liberal. But though he wrote (by his own confession) " dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste," he performed so much more than was expected, that his employers generously presented him with an additional... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...at last completed his « Lives of the Poets,' of which he gives this account : Sometime in March 1 finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written I hope, in sucha manner a» m*y lend... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...this account : Sometime in March 1 finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which 1 wrote in my usual^way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. In u memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written I hope, in sucha manner as miy tend to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 418 pages
...1781, Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account: "Some time in March I finished the 'Lives of the Poets,' which...hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste."1 In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written, I hope, in such a manner as... | |
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Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. 
