 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...not willingly let die." However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might still be a giant of the pygmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind. Of his artifices... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 188 pages
...risen into eminence by producing something which they should not willingly let die... He might still be the giant of the pygmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind." § 10. . II. 23, 24. the earliest poets are generally the best. This "most orthodox article of literary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...not willingly let die. However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might still 10 be the giant of the pigmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind. Of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...not willinglv let die: However inferiour to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might still be a giant among the pygmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind. Of his artifices... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pages
...contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity : he might still be the giant of the pygmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind '. 123 Of his artifices of study or particular hours of composition we have little account, and there... | |
 | 1906 - 856 pages
...willingly let die. ' ' However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might still be the giant of the pigmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind. Of his artifices... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 pages
...poesy, thus concludes : " However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity ; he might still be a giant among the pigmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind." JB —... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...not willingly let die.' However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might 20 still be the giant of the pigmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind. Of his... | |
 | Prosser Hall Frye - 1908 - 334 pages
...not willingly let die. However inferior to the heroes that were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might still be the giant of the pigmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind. The passage,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 pages
...not willingly let die ". However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity : he might still be the giant of the pygmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind.' In his... | |
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However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might still be a giant among the pygmies, the oneeyed monarch of... 
