...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...testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality,...

...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography — Boswell has beaten them all. This book resembles nothing so much as the conversation of the inmates of the...

...Boswell and Johnson in his mind with a visible, palpable reality, such as none but a master could ensure? "Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived;...testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality,...

...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this hook. Many of the greatest men that ever lived, have written biography — Boswell has beaten them all." — Edinburgh Review. " BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON is THE RICHEST DICTIONARY OF...

...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biopraphy. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived;...testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality,...

...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...

...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...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,...

...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 erer lived ; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or...

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

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