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
| Thomas Purnell - 1867 - 326 páginas
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| 1927 - 594 páginas
...decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes not more decidedly the first of orators than Boswell...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. That Macaulay, an Englishman, should have compared Boswell to Eclipse is not surprising. Eclipse was... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...met with such general acceptance as this : ' Homer ia not more decidedly the first of heroic pocts, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists,...decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eelipse is first, and the rest nowhere. ' Of no historical figure have we so complete a portrait as... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 páginas
...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...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. ' Of no historical figure hare we so complete a portrait as of the author of Bosselai and the father... | |
| Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883 - 450 páginas
...be "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...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 - 498 páginas
...Boswell is without a rival among biographies: in the words of Macaulay: "Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets; Shakspeare is not more...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 páginas
...interest. 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...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
...typographical nicety and elegance. "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 have ever lived have written biography. Boswcll was one of the smallest... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 páginas
...Johnson is 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,...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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