 | 1860 - 598 pages
...finds chiefly in that good book—what the reader may find there also if he please— " the image of a gifted, gentle, patient, and valiant human soul, as it buffets its way through the billows of time, and will not drown though often in danger: cannot be drowned, but conquers and leaves a track... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...Johnson, I do not know where we have such a picture drawn of a human life as in these three volumes. "A pious, ingenious, altogether human and worthy book...soul, as it buffets its way through the billows of time, and will not drown though often in danger ; cannot bi drowned, but conquers and leaves a track... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 pages
...picture drawn of a human life as in these three volumes. " A pious, ingenious, altogether human ami worthy book ; imaging, with graceful honesty and free...on your life-path, and imaging throughout, what is lest of all, a gifted, gentle, patient. and valiant human soul, as it buffets its way through the billows... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1868 - 274 pages
...Johnson, I do not know where we have such a picture drawn of a human life as in these three volumes. A pious, ingenious, altogether human and worthy book...a gifted, gentle, patient, and valiant human soul, buffeting its way through the billows of time, and will not drown, though often in danger; cannot be... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 232 pages
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 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1870 - 960 pages
...Johnson, I do not know where we have such a picture drawn of a human life as iu these three volumes. "A pious, ingenious, altogether human and worthy book;...honesty and free felicity, many interesting objects and pcrsous on your lifepath, aud imaging throughout, what is best of all, a gifted, gentle, patient, and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 256 pages
...Johnson, I do not know where we have such a picture drawn of a human life, as in these three volumes. " A pious, ingenious, altogether human and worthy book ; imaging, with graceful honesty and free feli40 LEIGH HUNT'S AUTOBlOCKAniY. [1850. city, many interesting objects and persons on your life-path,... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 454 pages
...Johnson, I do not know where we have such a picture drawn of a human life as in these three volumes. A pious, ingenious, altogether human and worthy book...danger ; cannot be drowned, but conquers and leaves a track of radiance behind it : that, I think, comes out more clearly to me than in any other of your... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 452 pages
...Johnson, I do not know whore we have such a picture drawn of a human life as in these three volumes. A pious, ingenious, altogether human and worthy book...honesty and free felicity, many interesting objects and personson your life-path, — and imaging throughout, what is best of all, a gifted, gentle, patient... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1881 - 274 pages
...Johnson, I do not know where we have such a picture drawn of human life as in these three volumes. " A pious, ingenious, altogether human and worthy book, imaging, with graceful honesty and free felic* This letter, though most of it appeared in an edition of Leigh Hunt's "Autobiography," is here... | |
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Well, I call this an excellent good book, by far the best of the autobiographic kind I remember to have read in the English language ; and indeed, except it be Boswell's of Johnson, I do not know where we have such a picture drawn of a human life, as... 
