 The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first...  Bookseller's catalogues - Page 30by William Brough (bookseller.) - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...the first of biographers. He has 4 no second. He has distanced all his competitors so de5 cidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest, nowhere. 6 We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | James Roche - 1851 - 624 pages
...more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors," &c. Such, too, is the general opinion, maintained from its origin in unimpaired favor now after the... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. F hS gjyo& Bi d F ^ 6wQ2 b6> ݆ } Ә: gh u 5 W ... 1 F &2 r Oed q| R U @ a ([k\ b PI 4C n+" m e nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." From the reception of his pension to the close of his life, there is little variation in... | |
 | 1856 - 668 pages
...Carlton & Phillips. 18ou. " BOSWELL," says Macaulay, " is the fjrst of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly,...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." It is one of the strange things in literature — a real phenomenon — that in all the "... | |
 | 1856 - 668 pages
...C&rlton & Phillips. 1855. " BOSWELI," says Macaulay, " is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly,...is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, vand the rest nowhere." It is one of the strange things in literature — a real phenomenon — that... | |
 | 1856 - 864 pages
...more, decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He lias no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Kclipso is first, and the rest nowhere." From the reception of his pension to the close of his life,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...success of a new work."— No. lxvi. 1820. Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...while to place them : Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. l, becomes robbery, perjury, deadly sin. He knew not,...his powers were founded on ancient law, and which nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pages
...Demosthenes is not more decidedly tho first of Orators, than Boewell is the first of biographers. lie пая distanced all his competitors so decidedly that It...worth while to place them : Eclipse Is first, and all the rest nowhere. We ara not sure that there is in the whole history of the human Intellect so... | |
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