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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 of biographers . He has no second .
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 of biographers . He has no second .
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Página 595 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 65 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 72 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 437 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 55 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 225 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 355 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Página 307 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 204 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 476 - Lamb (Charles) Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1823.
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| Título | Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters |
| Editores | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey |
| Editor | Macmillan Company, 1909 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 27 Feb. 2006 |
| Largo | 642 páginas |
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