 | English periodicals - 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 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 - English literature - 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 588 pages
...Correspondent*. flotrs. GIBBER'S 'APOLOGY.' *' 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." Lord Macaulay may say what he likes ; I decline to believe that a great work can be executed by a small... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written bio7 graphy; Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to 8 give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have wri''en biography. or his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and...been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp Duuciad was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore. He was the laughing-stock... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...lived have wr::»en biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that erer lived; and he has beairn them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to...all who knew 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... | |
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We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so 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, and he has beaten them... 
