...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...

...National Review.' Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondent*. flotrs. GIBBER'S 'APOLOGY.' *' MANY of the greatest men that ever lived have written...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Lord Macaulay may say what he likes ; I decline to believe that a great work can be executed by a small...

...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...

...intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have wri''en account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished,...been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Duuciad...

...lived have wr::»en biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that erer lived; and he has beairn them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to...all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest i intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow I who had missed his only chance of immortality, ; by...

...prime 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...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...

...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...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...

...intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have wri"en biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that...meanest and feeblest intellect Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Duuciad...

...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."—...

...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 Jemaiy Uoswell we indeed owe many hDurs of supreme delight."...