 Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic 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...  American Quarterly Review - Page 196edited by - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...and odes, would they cope ? Their number retreats before Dryden aud Pope ; And Johnson, well armed, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more." Johnson despised monosyllables, and his fondness for highksounding words is often seen in his dictionary.... | |
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...didn't care tuppence about the 'oss, and that he were only unting hup words for his Dickehunary. " And Johnson, well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more !" And I have no faith in Master Tommy Holcroft's love of osses, or he would never have left 'em for... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...their pow'rs, Their verse-men, and prose-men ; then match them with ours ! And Johnson, well-arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. The last line of the epigram refers to the forty memlicrs of the French Academy, who were for thirty... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pages
...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 ! ON AECHBISIIOP SECKER. WHILE Seeker lived, he show'd how seers should live ; While Seeker taught,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...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 !" In the July of this year Johnson had formed some new scheme of mental improvement, as appears from... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...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 !" In the July of this year Johnson had formed some new scheme of mental improvement, as appears from... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 748 pages
...all their pow'rs, Their verse-men, and prose-men; then match them with ours! And Johnson, well-arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. The last line of the epigram refers to the forty members of the French Academy, who were for thirty... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Biography & Autobiography - 1877 - 596 pages
...Johnson's time. Gan-ick's complimentary epigram on Johnson's Dictionary says, alluding to them : — And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more ! B2 2. L'ACADEMIE DBS INSCRIPTIONS KT BELLES LETTRES. This consists of men eminent in antiquarian... | |
 | Theology - 1883 - 372 pages
...companies containing thirty or forty of the best scholars in England and America. " And Johnson, well armed like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more." i Since this may be regarded as a daring assertion, the remainder of this article will be devoted to... | |
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