 | 1927 - 594 páginas
...only once in the whole history of literature. There is that famous passage of Macaulay's, for example: Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets,...more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes not more decidedly the first of orators than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.... | |
 | 1871 - 730 páginas
...Hebrides, with Notes by J. Wilson Croker Portrait. 2 vols., imp. 8vo, cloth. New York, 1841. $3.0° " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets,...Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than lioswell is the first ol biographer's. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 páginas
...It is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poete, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly tbe first of Orators, than Boswell is the first of Biographers. lie has distanced all his competitors... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883 - 452 páginas
...indictment of the wretched Boswell. The Life of Johnson is stated to be "a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets,...no second. He has distanced all his competitors." And yet we are told that the author of that work was " one of the smallest men that ever lived —... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1873 - 508 páginas
...biographies : in the words of Macaulay : " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets; Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists ; Demosthenes...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers ;" and Burke has said that Johnson appears far greater in Boswell's book than in his own. We thus know... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 páginas
...such general acceptance as this : ' 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 orator«, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 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...distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worthwhile to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in... | |
 | 1874 - 414 páginas
...I'rouf Portrait. 4 vols., 8vo, tree Cdlf, gilt tops, uncut, bound by Riviere. Oxford^ 1826. $30.00 " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets,...first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly ihe first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have... | |
 | 1874 - 992 páginas
...condition of typographical nicety and elegance. " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poet*, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the flrat of orators, than Boswell Is the first of biographers. Many of tlie greatest men that have ever... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 páginas
...assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poet*, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers, lie has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to... | |
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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... 
