 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 páginas
...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great...the torment of those among whom he lived, without 25 the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 152 páginas
...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great...the torment of those among whom he lived, without 25 the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all... | |
 | John Stephen Farmer - 1904 - 396 páginas
...to be TOADIED. 1847. MACAULAY [BOSWELL'S Johnson^, without the officiousness, the inquisitivencss, the effrontery, the TOADEATING, the insensibility...he never could have produced so excellent a book. 1848. THACKERAY, Book of Snobs, v. Boys are not all TOADIES in the morning of life ... The tutors TOADIED... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 636 páginas
...a high spirit nor a fine sense of the becoming. But when Macaulay tells us that if Boswell had not been a great fool he would never have been a great writer, we are shocked with an absurdity more poignant than any which we can find in Boswell's own writings.... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - 1903 - 340 páginas
...in spite of their weaknesses. 7. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. 8. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. 9. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived,... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 páginas
...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool he would never have been a great writer. ... Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers, Boswell had absolutely none.... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 762 páginas
...FRANZ, ES, XVIII. The visitor, declining all refreshment but a cup oftea, retired. Id., Crick., I, 33. Without all the qualities which made him the jest...toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he (sc. Boswell) never could have produced so excellent a book. MAC., Boswell 's Life of Johnson, (1766).... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins, Agnes Frances Perkins - 1907 - 346 páginas
...of his weaknesses. 8. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. 9. Without all the qualities which made him the jest...torment of those among whom he lived, without the offlciousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1910 - 344 páginas
...biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all If he had not been a great fool he would never have been a great writer We remember no other case in which the world has made so great a distinction between a book and its... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 758 páginas
...FRANZ, ES, XVIII. The visitor, declining all refreshment but a cup of tea, retired. Id., Crick., I, 33. Without all the qualities which made him the jest...torment of those among whom he lived, without the officlousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
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But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. 
