 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Johnson's Works, v. 36. I.— 22 ' There ' There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any literary work, stating...the authour promised to himself and to the publick.' How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed, when they find him displaying a perfect theory... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...conscious. Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, "There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating...the authour promised to himself and to the publick." - s 2 How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed, when they find him displaying a perfect... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...Preface to the DICTIONARY. [AD 1755. ' There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any literary work, stating...the authour promised to himself and to the publick.' How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed, when they find him displaying a perfect theory... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating...the authour promised to himself and to the publick." How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed, when they find him displaying a perfect theory... | |
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...merit to be preserved. 1 " There are two things," said he, "which I am confident I can «U> very well : one is an introduction to any literary work, stating...various causes, why the execution has not been equal to jyhat thp author promised to himself and to the public.'" p. £0. Johnson somewhere tells Boswell,... | |
 | 1814 - 1032 pages
...two particulars : — " There are two things," said he, " which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any literary work, stating...causes, why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public." IMITATORS. Once, when the Bishep of St A saph was sitting... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well ; one is an introduction to any literary work, stating...the authour promised to himself and to the publick." performance, not with those of other individuals, (in which caae bis inflexible regard to truth would... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 pages
...two particulars : — " There are two things," said he, " which I am confident I can do very well : one is, an introduction to any literary work, stating...causes, why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public." The papers in the Idler, by Reynolds to which I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...things which I am confident I can do very well ; one is an introduction to any literary work, etating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclnsion, shewing from varions canses why the execution has not been equal to what the anthour promised... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say, " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any literary work, stating...the authour promised to himself and to the publick." How should puny scribblers be abashed and disappointed, when they find him displaying a perfect theory... | |
| |
There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner: the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes... 
