Samuel Johnson Quote

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.


Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets (ed. Oxford University Press, 2006) - ISBN: 9780199284825


The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of...

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of...

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of...

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of...