 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 pages
...Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators, than Boswell Is the first of biographers. He haa distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it Is not worth while to place them : Kcllpso Is first, and all the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is In the wbole history of... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - 1902 - 512 pages
...more decidedly the flrst of orators, than Boswell Is the first of biographers. lie lias no second. lie has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it Is not worth while to place them." — From editor's preface. Selections from this should be read by the classes In English literature.... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 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 phsenomenon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has 5 distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pages
...decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has 5 distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has 5 distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it...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... | |
 | Naomi Norsworthy - 1908 - 648 pages
...of biog1Garnett, "English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria," p. 4, 1881. raphers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." The first sentence contains repetition in the predicate. The rhythm of thought in the second... | |
 | 1908 - 544 pages
...this form of rhythm is far more prevalent in English than is commonly supposed. When Macaulay says, "He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them," there is no less parallelism than when Job says, "Cease then and let me alone, that I may take comfort... | |
 | 1908 - 616 pages
...this form of rhythm is far more prevalent in English than is commonly supposed. When Macaulay says, "He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them," there is no less parallelism than when Job says, "Cease then and let me alone, that I may take comfort... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 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." — THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, "Samuel Johnson," 1831, in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.... | |
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