 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...is doubtful; the mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are varioufly related; and all that can be told with certainty is,...he was poor. THE poem of Hudibras is one of thofe competitions of which a nation may juftly boaft; as the images which it exhibits are domeftick, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...doubtful ; the mod* • and place of his education are unknown; the events o£ his life are V*'rloufly related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was p6or. THE poem' of Hudibras is one of" thofe eompofitions of which a nation may juftly boaft; as the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...is doubtful ; the mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are varioufly related ; and all that can be told, with certainty...he was poor. THE poem of Hudibras is one of thofe pompofitions of which a nation mayjuftly boaft ; as the images which it exhibits are domeftick, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...his education are unknown ; the events of his life are varioufly related ; and all that can be tol(^ with certainty is, that he was poor. THE poem of Hudibras is one of thofq compofitious of which a nation mayjuftly boaft ; as the images which it exhibits are. domeftick,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are varioufly related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor. i ,' . . . . r . •^. • • . . . • . ...-.1v T HE poem of Hudibras is one of thofe tompofitions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are varioufly related; and all that can be told with certainty is,...juftly boaft ; as the images which it exhibits are domeftick, the fentiments unborrowed and unexpected, and the ftrain of diction original and peculiar.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...can be told with certainty is, ;hat he was poor. THE poem of Hudibras is one of thofe compofl* tions of which a nation may juftly boaft ; as the images which it exhibits arc domcflick, the fentjments un-* borrowed and unexpected, and the flrain of diction. original and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...told with certainty is, that he was poor. * They were colledled into one, and publifhed in izmo H, THE poem of Hudibras is one of thofe compofitions...images which it exhibits are domeftic, the fentiments nnborrowed and unexpected, and the ftrain of dicYiou original and peculiar. We inuft not, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...his language* The mode and place of his education are unknown; the events of his life aie varioufly related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor. THE poem of Hudibraa is one of thofe compofitions of which a nation may juftly boa ft; as the images which it exhibits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...is doubtful ; the mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are varioufly related ; and all that can be told with certainty...juftly boaft ; as the images which it exhibits are domeftick, the fentiments unborrowed and unexpected, and the ftrain of diction original and peculiar.... | |
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In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that... 
