 | 1857 - 614 pages
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 | 1831 - 652 pages
...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had iiot been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, —... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...literary eminence iir'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. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...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. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he - |l 8= g Մ !g ' n f.y z =H *:4 '|k g Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived —... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...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." And again ; " He had indeed a quick observation and a retentive memory. These qualities, if he had... | |
 | 1852 - 832 pages
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 | 1853 - 848 pages
...persons delirous of furthering their education. A slight tendency to paradox is observable in gome of the disquisitions of our author. For instance,...says, that if Boswell " had not been a great fool, ho would never have been a great writer." This assertion he supports by such remarks as these : " Without... | |
 | 1855 - 670 pages
...less refined than Chesterfield-—Boswcll, the biographer of Johnson—Mr. Macaulay thus descants: " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without... | |
 | 1855 - 654 pages
...refined than Chesterfield — Boswell, the biographer of Johnson — Mr. Macaulay thus descants : " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without... | |
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La Fontaine was in society a mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been... 
