 | William Minto - 1895 - 578 pages
...that reminds us of the coarse familiarity of Swift. Thus, speaking of Boswell, he says — " If he I had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great V writer." So of Chatham, he says — " He was not invited to be- I come a placeman, and he therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 pages
...not come in a^iiss among the stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason...weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would 25 never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1902 - 216 pages
...book to the badness of the author. Other men, we are told, have attained to literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason...weaknesses. " If he had not been a great fool, he would not have been a great writer." " He had quick observation and a retentive memory. These qualities,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 202 pages
...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...weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would 25 never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment... | |
 | Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford - 1899 - 72 pages
...not come in amiss4 among the stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason...great fool, he would never have been a great writer. VOCABULARY a, un, una. able, capaz, poderoso — a. able, to be able, poder abstract, abstracto —... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford - 1899 - 74 pages
...stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Bóswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had...great fool, he would never have been a great writer. VOCABULARY a, un, una. able, capaz, poderoso —a. able, to be able, poder abstract, abstracto —... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...paradoxically maintained that ' Boswell attained literary eminence by reason of his weaknesses, that if he had not been a great fool he would never have been a great writer.' But Carlyle more wisely That loose-flowing, careless-looking work of his is as a picture by one of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But 20 these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason...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 - 136 pages
...come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But zc these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason...the torment of those among whom he lived, without 25 the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all... | |
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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. 
