...post, p. 439. "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...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere."—THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, "Samuel Johnson," 1831, in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays....

...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,...

...PHILIPP SPITTA. BY JEFFREY PULVER. 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,' wrote Macaulay; and what Boswell was to Johnson and English literature, that and something more was...

...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. 5. A constitutional statesman is in general...

...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...place them. Eclipse' is first, and the rest nowhere. — MACAULAY, "Essay on Johnson." EXPOSITION BY COMPARISON AND CONTRAST 596. Write a theme of at least...

...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, l and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is jn the whole history of the human intellect so...

...his reckless exaggeration and love of paradox. See Carlyle's reply in his essay on the same subject.] Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second....is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, 1 and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so...

...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...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. — MACAULAY : Boswett's Johnson. This is the first sentence in the essay. It is not uncommon, especially...

...every critic would now assent : "Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." And again, "He has, in an important department of literature, immeasurably surpassed such writers as...

...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...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. — MACAULAY. 5. It has been remarked that Mr. Pecksniff was a moral man. So he was. Perhaps there...