 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 Seiten
...; but lay hold of a topic, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are dnBff men, and are glad to read the books through." He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an author ; observing that "be was thirty years in preparing his " History," and that he employed a man... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...Critical Reviewers, I believe, ~often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topic, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly...duller men, and are glad to read the books through." regard to that sacred principle of truth to which Dr. Johnson so rigidly adhered, according to the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 Seiten
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without...History, and that he employed a man to point it for him,1 as if (laughing) another man could point his sense better than himself." Mr. Murphy said, he... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 Seiten
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the Constitution both in Church and State. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topic, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to... | |
 | Mary Lynch Johnson - 1922 - 54 Seiten
...Monthly Review was done with the most care; the Critical upon the best principles. Later, he said, "The Critical reviewers, I believe, often review without...Monthly reviewers are duller men, and are glad to be able to read the books through." — Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Birkbeck-HiH ed., vol. 2,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 Seiten
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without...duller men, and are glad to read the books through." This collection, which has, I think, been unduly overlooked, is for the first time brought together... | |
 | Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1923 - 640 Seiten
...Personal Recollections, p. 136. "The critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the book through; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly...duller men, and are glad to read the books through." — S. Johnson, Boswell's Life, II, 24 (Everyman's Library). The charge that reviewers do not read... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1925 - 464 Seiten
...opposition, and more important because edited by Smollett] upon the best principles," and again that "the Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through; but lay hold of a topic and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to... | |
 | Reginald Lane Poole - 1927 - 516 Seiten
...The Athenian Mercury, 1690-1, Preface. guished. ' The Critical Reviewers, I believe,' Johnson said, ' often review without reading the books through ; but...duller men, and are glad to read the books through.' ' Though one of the writers of the Critical Review was Smollett, the great days of English reviewing... | |
 | D.A. Stansfield - 1984 - 338 Seiten
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution both in Church and State. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through, but lay hold on a topic and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad... | |
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Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers,... 
