...assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspere is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere....

...assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspere is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere....

...the Tour to the Hebrides." Macaulay was right when he said : " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Yet this language, strong as it is, exaggerated as many have thought it, is not more pronounced and...

...of a great man should be. Macaulay was right when he said : " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Yet this language, strong as it is, exaggerated as many have thought it, is not more pronounced and...

...of a work, which everybody has read, and everybody has praised. Lord Macaulay speaks of Boswell as "the first of biographers. He has no second. He has...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Carlyle's description is equally enthusiastic : " Out of the fifteen millions," he writes, "that then...

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...of a great man should be. Macaulay was right when he said : " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Yet this language, strong as it is, exaggerated as many have thought it, is not more pronounced and...

...of a great man should be. Macaulay was right when he said : " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Yet this language, strong as it is, exaggerated as many have thought it, is not more pronounced and...

...interest. The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly ies of such a spirit, and the degradation of such a name. The unhappy man competi- . , Boewell , . , ,. . the first of tors so decidedly that biographers. it is not worth while...

...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...