 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1894 - 546 pages
...Johnson " (2 vols., 1791) was received with great favor. "The 'Life of Johnson,'" says Macaulay, " 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, . . . than Boswell is the first of biographers.... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1895 - 390 pages
...with Macaulay's direct boldness : Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. * Qenung, Outlines of Rhetoric, p. 203. We cannot learn too soon or too thoroughly that similarity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pages
...character gives a delightful interest to many passages which have no other interest. The Life of Johnson Shakspeate is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 pages
...EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON (Edinburgh Review, September, 1831) 1. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 202 pages
...EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON (Edinburgh Revieio, September, 1831) 1. 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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 426 pages
...seat of disease in a pair of consumptive lungs. — FM CRAWFORD: Saracinesca, 125. The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 236 pages
...of Bos well's Life of Johnson, Edinburgh Review, September 1831. His Biographer 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 700 pages
...character gives a delightful interest to many passages which have no other interest. 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 pages
...theipubllcatlon." — BISHOP HORNK. • Bosweirs Life of Johnson is one of the best books In the world. It Is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer Is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets, — fhakKpearo Is not more decidedly tbe first of Dramatists. — Demosthenes is not more decidedly... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1901 - 186 pages
...comparison or a contrast. For example : Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes...orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. — MACAULAY. But, my lord, you may quit the field of business, though not the field of danger; and,... | |
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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... 
