 | Marvin Marcus - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 376 pages
...to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies and display the minute details of daily life." 47 The deflating, epitomizing power of anecdote has long been recognized. Nietzsche, for instance,... | |
 | Kevin Pask - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 238 pages
...those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily...men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue" (321). The expanded writ of biography (which now includes, Johnson insists, the scholar, the merchant,... | |
 | Cornelis W. Schoneveld - History - 1996 - 280 pages
...those Performances and lncidents, which produce vulgar Greatness, to lead the Thoughts into domestick Privacies, and display the minute Details of daily...excel each other only by Prudence, and by Virtue; and a little further on. for the lncidents which give Excellence to Biography are of a volatile and... | |
 | Jennifer A. Herdt - Philosophy - 1997 - 322 pages
...to pass slightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the...excel each other only by prudence and by virtue." 70 Johnson's promotion of biography stands in telling contrast with Hume's advocacy of history, which... | |
 | Jennifer A. Herdt - Philosophy - 1997 - 322 pages
...to pass slightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the...aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue."70 Johnson's promotion of biography stands in telling contrast with Hume's advocacy of history,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...politics, as a way to define human interest: the biographer should deal with "domestick privacies," and "the minute details of daily life, where exterior...men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue" (in, ^11), that is, where the demands on men and women are identical. Most people, Johnson writes in... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
...those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside."19 The public record was seldom useful, and authors' writings could not be trusted as clues... | |
 | Kevin Hart - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 254 pages
...those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside . . .' (Life, i, 32). 'On the Death of Dr Robert Levett' prizes the demands of poetry over those of... | |
 | Christopher Harris - Statesmen - 2000 - 196 pages
...over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily...excel each other only by prudence and by virtue." To Johnson, the public aspect of a life was an "appendage" to the more central private life where the... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips - History - 2000 - 390 pages
...those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily...aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue." At bottom Johnson's view of biography expressed a strongly religious sense of the value of... | |
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The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... 
