 | 1831 - 652 pages
...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described 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 expression for a bore. He was the laughing-stock of the whole... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described 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 expression for a bore. He was the laughing-stock of the whole... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pages
...knew him, a man of the 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 was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore. He was the laughing-stock... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described 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 expression for a bore. He was the laughingstock of the whole... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described 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 expression for a bore. He was the laughingstock of the whole... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...him, a man of the meanest and i'eeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who bad missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore. He was the laughing-stock of the whole... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...kcew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described himasafeflow who had missed Dauciadwas written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore. He was the laughing-stock... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...He was a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the ' Dunciad ' was written." Johnson, temperately appreciated by manly minds, was made to be the idol of " mean and feeble intellecta."... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed t. Sprung from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy, the Re Duuciad was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore. He was the laughing-stock... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest i intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow I who had missed his only chance of immortality, ; by not having been alive when the Duuciad | v. as written. Beanclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore. He was the... | |
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Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him... 
