 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 decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first...  Bookseller's catalogues - Page 30by William Brough (bookseller.) - 1853Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...yet appeared.' Letters of Bos•avell, p. 265. ' Pope's Prologue to Addison's Cato, l. 4. * • . . . Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.' Macaulay's Essays, i. 374. ' See post, Sept. 17, 1777, and Malone's note of March 15, 1781,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...yet appeared." Letters of Bos•well, p. 265. 1 Pope's Prologue to Addison's Cato, 1. 4. * ' . . . Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.' Macaulay's Essays, i. 374. ' See post, Sept. 17. 1777, and Malone's note of March 15, 1781,... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 610 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. ' We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phaenomenon... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...not more decidedly theT>rst of orators, than Bos well is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly,...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...decidedly the first of dramatists, — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...while to place them: Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon... | |
 | John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...DECIDEDLY THE FIRST OF DRAMATISTS, — DEMOSTHENES IS 1>OT MORE DECIDEDLY THE FIRST OF ORATORS, THAN BOSWELL is THE FIRST OF BIOGRAPHERS. He has distanced...is not worth while to place them : Eclipse is first nnd all the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 512 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Bos well is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly,...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly,...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | 1847 - 560 pages
...more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all his competitors," &c. Such, too, is the general opinion, maintained from its origin in unimpaired favour now after the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 696 pages
...great, a very great work"; adding very justly: " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly,...that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is rirst, and the rest nowhere." Of this wonderful book, we have now before us, a wonderfully cheap and... | |
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