 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 pages
...the letter to Lord Chesterfield, are often quoted as representing Johnson's style at its best: — " In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 232 pages
...preface the author truly declared, etc. The passage which thus moved Home Tooke was the following : — In this work, when it shall be found that much is...tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitons to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
 | Gilbert Milligan Tucker - Americanisms - 1895 - 252 pages
...detractor in the literary world, said he could never read without tears. The final paragraph runs thus: " In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 pages
...which moved Horne so deeply, is often quoted as a specimen of Johnson's best style, and is as follows : "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 pages
...which moved Home so deeply, is often quoted as a specimen of Johnson's best style, and is as follows : "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to (nform it that the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrowy' In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the authour, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceed the faults of that which it condemns;... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 pages
...is paid with flattery." 26. 2. The passage referred to is the last paragraph of the Preface : — " In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
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... author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage... 
