 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...  Bookseller's catalogues - Stranica 30napisao/la William Brough (bookseller.) - 1853Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Broj stranica: 828
...first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it 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 strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Broj stranica: 828
...first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it 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 strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - Broj stranica: 916
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of hiographers. Ho has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eelipse is first, and the rest nowhere, We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - Broj stranica: 572
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. | } ~ > nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - Broj stranica: 216
...everybody has praised. Lord Macaulay speaks of Boswell as "the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Carlyle's description is equally enthusiastic : " Out of the fifteen millions," he writes,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - Broj stranica: 574
...taught the world what a true biography of a great man should be. Macaulay was right when he said : " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Yet this language, strong as it is, exaggerated as many have thought it, is not more pronounced... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - Broj stranica: 566
...taught the world what a true biography of a great man should be. Macaulay was right when he said : " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Yet this language, strong as it is, exaggerated as many have thought it, is not more pronounced... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - Broj stranica: 1100
...distanced all his competi- . , Boewell , . , ,. . the first of tors so decidedly that biographers. ne of their minds was often injured by st nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect во strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - Broj stranica: 934
...more decidedly the first of orators, than Eoswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. lie favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the nowhere. The reasons which Mr. Croker has given for incorporating passages from Sir John Hawkins and... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - Broj stranica: 1114
...more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. — M ACAULA v : Review af Croker* s BosivclFsJoknson. Écrasez l'infâme! ("Crush the infamous... | |
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