Paul Morphy,
Chess Player's Chronicle
(1860)
“ First and foremost among them is the way in which the German author speaks of Morphy in the first volume; his praises sound like an apotheosis, no Roman poet ever addressed more flattering or high sounding epithets to his Cæsars. Even Caïssa's crown of glory seems to grow pale before this new-born light. No living Chess player, nay, even none of our dead celebrities could be compared to him, whose rising reputation is, as yet, in its first phase, and whom, when in his full glory, no Pantheon could hold, nor Westminster Abbey enshroud. ”
