 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...declared, that " thofe debates were the only parts " of his writings which gave him any com" puncHon; but that at the time he wrote them " he had no conception that he was impofing " upon the world, though they were frequently " written from very (lender materials,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...Johnfon's heart, that he then declared, that " thofe " debates were the only parts of his writings "which gave him any compunction ; but " that at the time he wrote them he had no '' conception that he was impofing upon the " world, though they were frequently writ-r " ten from very flender materials,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 422 pages
...declared, that " thofe " debates were the only parts of his writings " which gave him any compundtion ; but " that at the time he wrote them he had no " conception that he was impofing upon the " world, though they were frequently writ" ten from very flendcr materials,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 pages
...Johnfon's heart, that he then declared, that " thofe " debates were the only parts of his writings ** which gave him any compunction : but " that at the time he wrote them he had no ** conception that he was impofing upon the u world, though they were frequently writ'* ten from very flender materials,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...Parliamentary Debates were the ^ t ^" only part of his writings which then gave him any com75. punction : but that at the time he wrote them, he had no conception...from very slender materials, and often, from none at all,—the mere coinage of his own imagination. He never wrote any part of his works with equal velocity.... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...7th of December, he declared to the writer of these lines, " that those debates were the only parts of his writings which then gave him any compunction;...that at the time he wrote them he had no conception be was imposfug upon the world, though they were frequently written from very slender materials, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...Johnson's heart, that he then declared, that " those debates were the. only parts of his writings which gave him any compunction ; but that at the time he wrote them he had no conception that he was imposing upon the world, though they were frequently written from very slender materials,... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...7th of December, he declared to the writer of these lines, " that those debates were the only parts of his writings which then gave him any compunction; but that at the time he \vrote them he had no conception he was imposing upon the world, though they were frequently written... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 734 pages
...Parliamentary Debates ; and such was the goodness t>f Johnson's heart, that he solemnly declared, " that the only part of his writings which then gave him any compunction, was his account of the Debates in the Gentleman's Magazine ; but that, at the time he wrote them, he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...Johnson's heart, that he then declared, that " those debates were the only parts of his writings which gave him any compunction ; but that at the time he wrote them he had no conception that he was imposing upon the world, though they were frequently written from very slender materials,... | |
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... he was imposing upon the world, though they were frequently written from very slender materials, and often from none at all, the mere coinage of his own imagination. 
