 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
 | 1922 - 942 páginas
...every critic would now assent : ' Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.' And again, ' He has, in an important department of literature, immeasurably surpassed such writers... | |
 | 1922 - 1416 páginas
...assent: 'Homen is not more decidedly the first of heroic ] poets, Shakespeare is not more decided- I ly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes/ is not more...place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." And again, ' He has, in an important depart357 ment of literature, immeasurably surpassed such writers... | |
 | Cecil Albert Moore - 1933 - 948 páginas
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 | James Boswell - 1934 - 624 páginas
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