...epistles, and odes would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope; And Johnson , well-armed like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more." Our author having spent, during the progress of his laborious work, the money which he had contracted...

...Garrick alludes in a complimentary epigram which concludes with this couplet-: And Johnson wel! nrm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. But though lie had now reared his fame on an adaoiaflline basis, ami was flattered by the great and...

...Epistles, and Odes would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And JOHNSON, well-arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more.' f Among his various critiques upon books stand prominent his very masterly review of Soame Jenyns'...

...odes, would they cope, * Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; " And Johnson, и ell arm'd like a hero of yore, " Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more !" Johnson this year gave at once a proof of his benevolence, quicknese of apprehension, and admirable...

...epistles, and odes, would they cope ? Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope. And Johnson well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat Forty French, and will beat Forty more." It is, perhaps, needless to mention, that Forty was the number of the French Academy, at the time when...

...epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French,' and will beat forty more !" Johnson this year gave at once a proof of his benevolence, quickness of apprehension, and admirable...

...and odes, would they cope, " Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; " And Johnson, well-arm'd like a hero of yore, " Has beat forty French,' and will beat forty more ! " Johnson this year gave at once a proof of his benevolence, quickness of apprehension, and admirable...

...and odes, would they cope, ' Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; ' And Johnson, well-arm'd like a hero of yore, " Has beat forty French,' and will beat forty more \ " Johnson this year gave at once a proof of his benevolence, quickness of apprehension, and admirable...

...and odes, would they cope ? Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope. And Johnson well arai'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat Forty French, and will beat Forty more." demy, at the time when their Dictionary was published to settle their language. In the course of the...

...epistles, and odes would they cope 1 Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope. And Johnson, well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more." It is, perhaps, needless to mention, that forty was the number of the French academy, at the time when...