 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 210 pages
...found this paper. Sometime 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. On Wednesday 11, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4; and with him were buried... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...account : " 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."* In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them: *' Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 402 pages
...1779, the first four volumes of his Lives of the Poets were published, and the remainder in the year 1781, which he wrote, by his own confession, "dilatorily...in addition to the stipulated sum. As he never was kvsensible to the pleasure or value of fame, it is not -improhable that he was yet more substantially... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...1779, the first four volumes of his Lives of the Poets were published, and the remainder in the year 1781, which he Wrote, by his own confession, "dilatorily...with vigour and haste." He had, however, performed so mnch more than was expected, that his employers presented him with an hundred pounds in addition to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...says, in a memorandum of that year, " 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." * In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them, " Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...extent, the stipulated remuneration of two hundred guineas was certainly not too liberal. But though he wrote (by his own confession) " dilatorily and...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
...this account : Sometime in March 1 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. In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written I hope, in sucha manner a» m*y lend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 860 pages
...found this paper. 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. On Wednesday 11, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4 ; and with him were buried... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...found this paper. 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, On Wednesday 11, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4 ; and with him were buried... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 pages
...found this paper. 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. On Wednesday 11, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4 ; and with him were buried... | |
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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. 
