 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
 | Charles Selby - 1859 - 424 páginas
...Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources. " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that ha\e ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest... | |
 | Sir Vivian Dering Majendie - 1859 - 394 páginas
...Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources. " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 320 páginas
...Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources, " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of hiographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written hiography. Boswell was one... | |
 | Thomas Nichols (of the British museum.) - 1859 - 168 páginas
...Characteristic.: Designs, engraved from authentic sources. "Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic pods, Shakspeare 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 páginas
...interest. The Life of Johnsun is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more...that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse fc first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect... | |
 | lady Caroline Lucy Scott (hon.) - 1860 - 440 páginas
...Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources. " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 338 páginas
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 | William Evans Burton - 1861 - 524 páginas
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 | Giuseppe Garibaldi - 1861 - 366 páginas
...Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources. " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that hare ever lived have •written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - 1867 - 316 páginas
...one of his essays, he says: " 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. Many of the greatest men that " ever lived have written biography. Boswell was " one of the smallest... | |
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