 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 Seiten
...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 - 1846 - 602 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...— 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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...— 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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1879 - 348 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 motive to...— 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... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 Seiten
...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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I look 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. 
