 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 Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - الصفحة 342بواسطة Sir John Hawkins - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 602عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...British soldier over ten French, he concluded his stanza with this couplet : And Johnson well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. There were many other passages of comment upon the great work, but its chief appearance in satire was... | |
 | Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...against the dictionary-making Academie franqaise, end upon a happy bluffness: "And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more !" When Garrick was staying with Ralph Allen at Prior 14 Park, Bath, he was, of course, asked to put... | |
 | Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...against the dictionary-making Acadimie fran$aise, end upon a happy bluffness : "And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty morel" When Garrick was staying with Ralph Allen at Prior Park, Bath, he was, of course, asked to put... | |
 | Jack Randall Crawford - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 192
...from the sword to the pen, Our odds are still greater, still greater our men ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more! [All applaud and Johnson, who is not deaf to flattery, is obviously pleased.] Quin [To Garrick.] Sir,... | |
 | John Walter Good - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...Shakspear and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight. And Johnson, well-arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. 108 This, Milton for his plan will choose : 1755 Wherein resembling Milton's Muse? Milton, like thunder,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...100, 101. 1 Of. the verses in The Gentleman's Mat/mine for April 1755, ending And Johnson, well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. Of., also, the review in Maty's Journal Britannique, 1755, xvii, p. 219 : Mr Johnson pent it glorifier...... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 210
...beneath it a complimentary ode, written by Garrick, and ending with the lines : And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more I1 When Drury Lane theatre was first opened under the management of Garrick, the prologue (one of the... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 588
...100, 101. 2 Cf. the verses in The Gentleman's Magazine for April 1755, ending And Johnson, well ann'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. when he came to write the preface, he had found that 'no dictionary of a living tongue can ever be... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 170
...has few equals and no superiors. Mr. BOSWELL. I think the couplet, '•'•And Johnson, well arm'd, like a hero of yore Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more! " excellent. Dr. JOHNSON. Sir, you may think it excellent, but that does not make it so. A COLORED... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...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. David Garrick. ON THE DEATH OF SAMUEL FOOTE. Foote from this earthly stage, alas ! is hurled ; Death... | |
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