 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 Seiten
...opinion of him now, than I once had ; for he has fhewn more fertility than I expedited. To be fure, he is a tree that cannot produce good fruit : he only...is better than a tree which produces only a few." In this depreciation of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greateft... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 Seiten
...However, I will acknowledge that I have a better opinion of him now, than I once had ; for he has shewn more fertility than I expected'. To be sure, he is...is better than a tree which produces only a few.' ' Churchill, in his first poem, The Rosciad (Poems, i. 4), mentions Johnson without any disrespect... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 Seiten
...However, I will acknowledge that I have a better opinion of him now, than I once had ; for he has shewn more fertility than I expected'. To be sure, he is...is better than a tree which produces only a few.' 1 Churchill, in his first poem, The Rosciad (Poems, i. 4), mentions Johnson without any disrespect... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 Seiten
...However, I will acknowledge that I have a better opinion of him now, than I once had ; for he has shewn more fertility than I expected. To be sure, he is...is better than a tree which produces only a few." In this depreciation of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | |
 | 1857 - 610 Seiten
...may surely be allowed to say of him in this capacity, what Johnson said of Churchill as a poet : ' To be sure, he is a ' tree that cannot produce good...is better ' than a tree which produces only a few.' Contemporaneously with these Letters has appeared, by an opportune coincidence, a very remarkable addition... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...However, I will acknowledge that 1 have a better opinion of him now, than i once had ; for he has shewn more fertility than I expected. To be sure, he is...is better than a tree which produces only a few." In this depreciation of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 Seiten
...I will acknowledge that I have a better opinion of him now, than I once had ; for he has shewn mure fertility than I expected. To be sure, he is a tree...is better than a tree which produces only a few." Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's day," adapted to the ancient... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 Seiten
...However, I will acknowledge that I have a better opinion of him now, than I once had ; for he has shewn more fertility than I expected. To be sure, he is...is better than a tree which produces only a few." Bonnell Thornton had jnst published a burlesqne "Ode on St. Cecilia's day," adapted to the ancient... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 Seiten
...However, I will acknowledge that I have a better opinion of him now, than I once had ; for he has shewn more fertility than I expected. To be sure, he is...is better than a tree which produces only a few." In this depreciation of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 Seiten
...However, I will acknowledge that I have a better opinion of him now, than I once had ; for he has shewn more fertility than I expected. To be sure, he is...is better than a tree which produces only a few." In this depreciation of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | |
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To be sure, he is a tree that cannot produce good fruit; he only bears crabs. But, sir, a tree that produces a great many crabs is better than a tree which produces only a few. 
