...found this paper. Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. On Wednesday 11, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4 ; and with him were buried...

...found this paper. Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets, which 1 wrote in my usual way, On Wednesday lltb, was buried my dear friend Thrale, who died on Wednesday 4th ; and with him were...

...this account : " Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste c." In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : " Written, I hope, in such a manner as may...

...Pr. and time m March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which 190. ' p' I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." [" This facility of writing, and this dilatoriness to Kozzi, write, Dr. Johnson," says Mrs. Piozzi,...

...Some Pr. and timeinMarchl finished the 'Lives of the Poets,' which 190. p ' I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." write, Dr. Johnson," says Mrs. Piozzi, " always re- p [" This facility of writing, and this dilatoriness...

...account : " Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' -which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." ^) In a memorandum previous to this, (1) This facility of writing, and this dilatoriness ever to write,...

...time in March p,. and I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' *««- p. which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." [_" This lacility of writing, and Piozzi, this dilatoriness to write, Dr. John- t- 3&' [" These two...

...account : — " Some time in March I finished ' The Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them : — " Written, I hope, in such a manner as may...

...1779 the first four volumes of his Lives of the Poets were published; and the remainder in the year 1781, which he wrote, by his own confession, " dilatorily...was expected, that his employers presented him with 100l. in addition to the stipulated sum. As he never was insensible to the pleasure or value of fame,...

...annual review made Easter, 1781) " I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." What he has said of Addison and "Cato" is still more applicable to his own achievement. " Cato," he...