 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
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 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 greatesi men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest... | |
 | 1858 - 616 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 biograpners. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1858 - 524 páginas
...Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources. " Homer is not more decidedly fhe first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biograpners. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one... | |
 | A. E - 1858 - 318 páginas
...Designs, engraved from authentic sources. " Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poeta, 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... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1859 - 408 páginas
...Macaulay thus expresses himself: "The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists, Demosthenes...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. u We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - 1859 - 128 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 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 - 322 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... | |
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