 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
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all nowhere.—MACAULAY : Review of Croker's BorwelFtJoknton. Uorasez I'inf&xne! (" Crush the infamous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. G nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 pages
...more decidedly the first of orators, than Bosvvell is the first of biographers. He 5 has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. 2. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 pages
...179 n. 3 Paradise Lost, Bk. iii. 1. 44. * ' 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.' Macaulay's Essays, ed. 1843, i. 374. ' Of all the men distinguished in this or any other... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 202 pages
...more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He 5 has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. 2. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 426 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...is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, the rest nowhere—MACAULAY: Boswett's Life of Johnson. A constitutional statesman is in general a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 700 pages
...not more decidedly the first oÇorators, 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. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 236 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. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 pages
...decidedly tbe first of Dramatists. — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...worth while to place them : Eclipse Is first, and all the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there Is in the whole history of the human Intellect so... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 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 that it is not worth while to place them. ' But 'of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers, Boswell had absolutely none.... | |
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