 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.  A System of Rhetoric - Page 218by Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 673 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pages
...mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But 20 these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses....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
...mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But 20 these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses....the torment of those among whom he lived, without 25 the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 pages
...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....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.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 pages
...strongly resembled Goldsmith. would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles.1 But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses....Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If hehad_not " been a great fool,., he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - 1903 - 340 pages
...literary eminence 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 644 pages
...intellect nor a high spin I. 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.... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 762 pages
...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).... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1904 - 712 pages
...wo are told, have attained to literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it ly reason of his 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,... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins, Agnes Frances Perkins - 1907 - 346 pages
...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 pages
...written 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... | |
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