Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, 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... The life of Dr. Samuel Johnson - Seite 344von Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 Seiten
...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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 Seiten
...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'... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 Seiten
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 394 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 514 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 508 Seiten
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 426 Seiten
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 Seiten
...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... | |
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