...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....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...

...intellect so 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...

...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....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,...

...there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of hen they have no intention to deceive, their reports »f conversation always require to be erer lived ; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or...

...riot more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. * * * * Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography....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...

...the spell from gigantic elevation to dwarfish littleness."* Speaking of Boswell, he says, " Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography....men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all." Again ; after mentioning some distinguished writers : " But these men attained literary eminence in...

...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...

...qualities of a biographer. Mr. Macanlay says, in his immortal criticism upon Croker's Boswell : " Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography....that ever lived; and he has beaten them all. He was a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only...

...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; aad he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any I.credit to his own account, or to the united...

...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one...smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe manyhuurs of supreme delight."—...