 Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare 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...  Bookseller's catalogues - Página 82por John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...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...is not worth 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...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...is not worth 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... | |
 | 1857 - 610 páginas
...Shakspeare is VOL. CV. NO. CCXIV. II 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 competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
 | 1831 - 652 páginas
...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, lie has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to... | |
 | 1832 - 428 páginas
...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,...is not worth 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... | |
 | 1832 - 424 páginas
...heroic poets, — Shakspeare- is not more decidedly the tirst 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 competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 páginas
...heroic poets, — Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell...is not worth 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 páginas
...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,...is not worth 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 páginas
...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 competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...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 competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
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