| 1853 - 724 trang
...Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the works 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." But we have now carried our chronological " Review of Reviews" down to the time proposed : — the... | |
| James Boswell - 1858 - 464 trang
...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...He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an author ; observing, that "he was thirty years in preparing his history, and that he employed a man... | |
| 1861 - 192 trang
...I relieve, review, without reading the books through, but lay hold of a topic and write arincipally from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read he books through." When, however, we remember that the Critical Review was the Conservative, and the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1865 - 348 trang
...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." The first of the magazines still lives, "a prosperous Gentleman," in the most select society. The '... | |
| Charles Knight - 1865 - 366 trang
...have had, and still have, many felicitous followers of the earlier masters of the Reviewing art. " 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 trang
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers arc 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 arc duller men, and are glad to... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 trang
...books through ; but lay hold of a topie, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Eeviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.' He talked of Lord Ly ttleton's extreme anxiety as an author ; observing that ' he was thirty years in preparing his history,... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 trang
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 trang
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 634 trang
...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...He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an author ; 1 See Appendix to this volume. — Editor. rving, that " he was thirty years in preparing... | |
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