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 139 por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 páginas Vista completa -
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