...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...