| James Boswell - 1846 - 602 trang
...did upon the Dictionary: it is ail teork, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of* fame, hut the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of." — And the event was, Sir J. Hawkins adds, evidence to him, thai in this speech he declared his genuine sentiments; for neither... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 374 trang
...upon this as I did upon the Dictionary : it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only...— And the event was evidence to me, that in this speech he declared his genuine sentiments ; for neither did he set himself to collect early editions... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 trang
...upon it as I did upon the dictionary — it is all work; and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of." He issued proposals, however, of considerable length; in which he showed that he knew perfectly what... | |
| James Boswell - 1858 - 482 trang
...upon this as I did upon the Dictionary : it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only...— And the event was evidence to me, that in this speech he declared his genuine sentiments ; for neither did he set himself to collect early editions... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 496 trang
...upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of."—And the event was evidence to me, that in this speech he declared his genuine sentiments ; for... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 trang
...upon this as I did upon the Dictionary; it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of." — /Sir John Hawkins (abridged). When he again talked of Mrs. Careless to-night, he seemed to have... | |
| James Boswell - 1880 - 488 trang
...upon this as I did npon the Dictionary: it Is all work, and my Inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only...— And the event was evidence to me, that in this speech he declared his genuine sentiments ; for neither did he set himself to collect early editions... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 trang
...upon this as I did upon the Dictionary : it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only...— And the event was evidence to me, that in this speech he declared his genuine sentiments ; for neither in the first place did he set himself to collect... | |
| Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 trang
...executed con amore, Johnson's answer was : " It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of,"1 and Johnson was thinking of himself when he wrote of Dryden : " If the excellence of his works... | |
| Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 trang
...executed con amore, Johnson's answer was : " It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of,"1 and Johnson was thinking of himself when he wrote of Dryden : " If the excellence of his works... | |
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