 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. He has distanced all his...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 139por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 362 páginas
...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 páginas
...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... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - 320 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Kingsley Ball - 1923 - 488 páginas
...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... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 234 páginas
...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." Note the merits of advertisement — simple main point, repetition, emphasis, persuasion. ' If we deny... | |
 | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1926 - 848 páginas
...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, —...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers... Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography; Boswell was one of the smallest... | |
 | Harry Salpeter - 1929 - 320 páginas
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 | Joseph John Reilly - 1930 - 840 páginas
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