 was particular in this writer, that when he had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room, and dictate^ into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 110by Samuel Johnson - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...brandy. — HORACE WALPOLE. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of Human Life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation. — DR. JOHNSON. Voltaire is the prince of buffoons. His merriment is without disguise or restraint.... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 654 pages
...brandy. — HORACE WALPOLE. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of Human Life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation. — DR. JOHNSON,. Voltaire is the prince of buffoons. His merriment is without disguise or restraint.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 pages
...the occasion demanded. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the...Steele, " was particular in this writer, that, when he 30 had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...the occasion demanded. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation. What he knew he could 15 easily communicate. " This," says Steele, " was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...the occasion demanded. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the...he knew he could easily communicate. 'This,' says 111 Steele, ' was particular in this writer, that when he had taken his resolution or made his plan... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...the occasion demanded. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation. 30 What he knew he could easily communicate. ' This,' says Steele, ' was particular in this writer,... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - Literary Collections - 1995 - 508 pages
...time in writing: if I remember right, the fifth Act WHS written in less than a Week's time; for this was particular in this Writer, that when he had taken his Resolution, or made his Plan for what he design'd to write, he would walk about a Room and dictate it into Language with as much freedom and... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...Remarks on Cato, leads Johnson into an analysis of Pope's "cant of sensibility" (para. 67). Addison "knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation" ("Addison," para. 1 1), and was only made more suspicious of Pope's efforts, and because he himself... | |
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