 But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what...  The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay - Página 235por George Otto Trevelyan - 1876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 348 páginas
...hexameter. " Maxime, si tu vis, cupio contendere tectun." But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeplly read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 páginas
...hexameter. " Max lme, si tu vis, cupio contcudere tecum." But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and...unwise if he stoops to wrangle with detractors whose wor'H are certajn to die. He always maintained that faiue was a shuttlecock which could be kept Up... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 458 páginas
...hexameter. " Maxime, si tu vis, cupio contendere tecura." But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and...and that an author whose works are likely to live is veryunwise if he stoops to wrangle with detractors whose works are certain to die. He always maintained... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 páginas
...hexameter. " Maxime, si tu TW, cnpio contenders tecum." But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and...what is written about them, but by what is written in tJrem ; and that an author whose works arc likely to live is very unwise if he stoops to wrangle with... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 páginas
...WHoLLY REFERRING TO ESGLISH KEN OF LETTERS IN EVERY AGE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. BY W CLARK RUSSELL. " The place of books in the public estimation is fixed,...written about them, but by what is written in them."— MACAU LAV. c/ LONDON : FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN. NEW VOKK: SCRIBNKR, W... | |
 | John Forster - 1874 - 616 páginas
...things to bring away. Of course a book must stand or fall by its contents. Macaulay said very truly that the place of books in the public estimation is...written about them, but by what is written in them. I offer no complaint of any remark made upon these volumes, but there have been some misapprehensions.... | |
 | John Forster - 1874 - 802 páginas
...things to bring away. Of course a book must stand or fall by its contents. Macaulay said very truly that the place of books in the public estimation is...written about them, but by what is written in them. I offer no complaint of any remark made upon these volumes, but there have been some misapprehensions.... | |
 | John Forster - 1874 - 616 páginas
...things to bring away. Of course a book must stand or fall by its contents. Macaulay said very truly that the place of books in the public estimation is...written about them, but by what is written in them. I offer no complaint of any remark made upon these volumes, but there have been some misapprehensions.... | |
 | William John Fitz-Patrick - 1879 - 408 páginas
...the rollicking Irishman ; but it was truly confessed by the greatest critic of our time, Macaulay, that " the place of books in the public estimation...what is written about them but by what is written of them." In America "O'Malley" did not, at first, fare much better than at home. Edgar Allen Poe reviewed... | |
 | W. J. Fitzpatrick - 1879 - 368 páginas
...confessed by the greatest critic of our time, Macaulay, that " the place of books in the publi(estimation is fixed not by what is written about them but by what is written of them." In America " O'Malley " did not, at first, fare much better than at home. Edgar Allen Poe... | |
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