 ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.  Select British Classics - Page 371803Full view - About this book
 | Kevin Hart - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 254 pages
...an idea why: 'more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral' (Yale, 1n, 322). To pass from Walton to Johnson is to leap over a vast amount of life-writing, though... | |
 | Richard G. Terry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 378 pages
...their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. 44 The moments in Johnson's Lives that seem most quintessential to his practice are ones where his... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 210 pages
...observation that "More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral."'" While praise and commemoration still seem to be Roper's and Cavendish's chief motivations, both biographies... | |
 | Royal Historical Society - Business & Economics - 2003 - 516 pages
...of the form: 'More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral."'' 'Nobody', he later told Boswell, 'can write the life of man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - Authors, English - 2005 - 321 pages
...their heroes that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. *"" [10] There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as... | |
 | André Maurois - 1966 - 210 pages
...their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. From this passage it is clear that Johnson had a vision of what a certain type of biography might be,... | |
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