Walter Raleigh (professor): Greatness

Walter Raleigh (professor) was British academic. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.

Walter Raleigh (professor): 24 quotes1 like

“The Dictionary, great work though it be, might have been successfully carried through by a merely mechanical genius.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

p. 33 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b325850;view=1up;seq=39 <br class="br">Six Essays on Johnson (1910)

“The topics of The Rambler are many, but the great majority of them are drawn from the graver aspects of life, and it is when he treats of fundamental duties and inevitable sorrows, bereavement, and disease, and death, that Johnson rises to his full stature.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

p. 15 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b325850;view=1up;seq=21 <br class="br">Six Essays on Johnson (1910)

“The sense of liberty and power, and of belief in the capacity and destiny of man, which was quickened by the new discoveries, distinguishes the literature of the Elizabethan age from the great backward-looking periods of romance. It is a literature of youth and hope, with none of the subtle and poignant flavours that are to be tasted in a literature of regret and memory.”

Walter Raleigh (professor)

p. 174 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002032470974;view=1up;seq=190 <br class="br">English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century (1906)