 | 1857 - 610 pages
...strange a phaenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived,...him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived...him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pages
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived...meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described Mm as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Úunciad... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...Boswell and Johnson in his mind with a visible, palpable reality, such as none but a master could ensure? "Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived;...him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived...him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial... | |
 | 1866 - 956 pages
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have writtca biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Reynolds was not the man to succumb to the dreary privations of age. As he lost his old friends he... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived...testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and i'eeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who bad missed his only chance of immortality,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that erer $ B x B ? @ u X kcew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described himasafeflow who had missed... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...the first of biographers. * * * * Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Undoubtedly Boswell was a vain man, a bore, a ridiculous man — without moral dignity, without any... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...littleness."* Speaking of Boswell, he says, " Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all." Again ; after mentioning some distinguished writers : " But these men attained literary eminence in... | |
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Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all. 
