...Macaulay was wont to assist them. "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." "Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there...

...passed into a familiar illustration. 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. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first,...

...with Macaulay's direct boldness : 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. * Qenung, Outlines of Rhetoric, p. 203. We cannot learn too soon or too thoroughly that similarity...

...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...Demosthenes is not 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...

...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 worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, the rest nowhere. — MACAULAY : Boswell's Life of Johnson. A constitutional statesman is in general...

...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...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He 5 has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place...

...unfair. His absurd paradox about Boswell is almost too well known to repeat. 'Shakespeare,' he says, 'is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...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....

...assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer Is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets. — Sbakupeare Is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists. —...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...

...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...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. — MACAULAY. But, my lord, you may quit the field of business, though not the field of danger; and,...

...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...the first of biographers. He has no second. He has 5 distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first,...