 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...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...torment of those among whom he lived, — without the ofRciousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...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...him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived—without the oificiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not |l 8= g Մ !g ' n f.y z =H *:4 '|k g C 'FB N...6 B:y h^ &e ~[$ U ;? -7> hrX g6߷ N{Ȝ<熛d D{ ja Paul Pry, convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues ; an unsafe companion, who... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...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...— without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...fool, ho would never have been a great writer." This assertion he supports by such remarks as these : " Without all the qualities which made him the jest...he never could have produced so excellent a book. ... Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence ns writers, Boswell had absolutely none.... | |
 | 1855 - 670 pages
...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...reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers, Boswell had absolutely none. There... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 654 pages
...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...reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers, Boswell had absolutely none. There... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...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...— without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not ihe jest and the torment of those among whom he lived — without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness,... | |
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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. 
