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 - Стр. 218авторы: Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Страниц: 673Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - Страниц: 758
...FRANZ, ES, XVIII. The visitor, declining all refreshment but a cup of tea, retired. Id., Crick., I, 33. Without all the qualities which made him the jest...torment of those among whom he lived, without the officlousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1915 - Страниц: 400
...critic who thought the phrase, an inspired idiot, appropriate to the Irishman, declared of the Scot that if he " had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer." Carlyle has made this opinion about Boswell impossible, and the simple process of reading Goldsmith's... | |
| Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - Страниц: 604
...danger of trimming a little off the truth in order to make a neat epigram. Of Boswell he says : — If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. And of the Cavaliers: — They valued a prayer or a ceremony not on account of the -comfort which it... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - Страниц: 536
...mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But 10 these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses....Without all the qualities which made him the jest 15 and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - Страниц: 716
...mere simpleton; his blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. l But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses....Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he 1 An ancient collection of anecdotes dealing with the follies of learned men. had not been a great... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - Страниц: 986
...judgments. Not every reader of HBoswell, by any means, will agree that whereas other men ^"" attain literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses, Boswell ■^attained it by reason of his weaknesses ; " but no one ques~*ions Macaulay's meaning, or his effectiveness in expressing it. One may object,... | |
| René Wellek - 1977 - Страниц: 396
...of the meanest and feeblest intellect«, Seite 334: »logic, eloquence, wit and taste.« Seite 333 : »If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.« 23. E, 2, 210, 211 ; /, 203. 24. £,2, 217: ». . .the interpreter between Mr. Wordsworth and the multitude«».... | |
| Peter Martin - 2002 - Страниц: 644
...the first of biographers, with no equal in ancient and modern literature, but added ruthlessly that 'if he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer'. Boswell had his lucid moments as writer, the complacent argument went, but given his dissipation these... | |
| S. C. Roberts - 2010 - Страниц: 150
...solution: Other great writers [he says], Goldsmith, for instance, had their weaknesses, but these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses....great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Thus was born the famous "inspired idiot" theory of James Boswell. To-day, perhaps, it is almost unnecessary... | |
| John Andrews Benn - Страниц: 642
...and pedantic, a bigot and a sot". How then did he attain literary eminence? By reason, says Macaulay, of his weaknesses: "If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer." This "inspired idiot" theory has by this time been thoroughly exploded, but such was Macaulay's dominance... | |
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