 | James Morgan Hart - 1902 - 242 páginas
...comparison or a contrast. For example : Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Bosvvell is the first of biographers.— MACAULAY. But, my lord, you may quit the field of business,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 636 páginas
...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...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of hiographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 páginas
...of fools. A few quotations will show the nature of Macaulay's argument : — " The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 páginas
...CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON {Edinburgh Review, September, 1831) 1. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 páginas
...CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON {Edinburgh Review, September, i8j1) 1. 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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 páginas
...Croker's editorial work are omitted, but nothing else. BOSWELL'S "LIFE OF JOHNSON" THE " Life of Johnson " is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first... | |
 | 1905 - 654 páginas
...Edinburgh Review said of Boswell : " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets ; Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists ; Demosthenes...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers." The Quarterly Review pronounced his " Life of Johnson " the richest dictionary of wit and wisdom any... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 páginas
...Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale, dated Ostick, in Skie, September 30th, 1773. " 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... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 306 páginas
...assuredly a great, a very great, book. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers . . . Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.' That is hearty and exact enough. But, as I have hinted,... | |
 | Naomi Norsworthy - 1908 - 648 páginas
...example the first paragraph of Macaulay's Essay on Boswell's "Life of Johnson."1 "The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great — a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first... | |
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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... 
