...and odes would they cope 1 Their numbers retreat before Drydeii and Pope. And Johnson well urni'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...

...— also " forty" in number — an achievement thus celebrated by Garrick, " And Johnson, well armed, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more ;" suppose this to have been done, we greatly question whether the unity had been a whit greater, and...

...To this his friend Garrick alludes in a complimentary epigram, which concludes with this couplet : "And Johnson well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more." But though he had now raised his fame on an adamantine basis, and was flattered by the great, and listened...

...*, J In satires, epistles, and odes would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dry den 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...

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

...flight; In satires, cplsUes, 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 1" 1 In his anger he exclaimed to his friend Oarrlck, " I have sailed a long and painful voyage round...

...satires, epbtlcs, and odea would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Drytlen and Pope; And JOHKSOV, well arm'd like a hero of yore. Has beat FORTY French, and will beat forty more 1" 1 In his anger he exclaimed to hl« MenJ Oarrlck, " I have sailed a long and painful voyan toood...

...satires, epistles, and odes would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope j And JOHXSOX, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat FORTY French, and will beat forty more 1" 1 In Us anger he exclaimed to his friend Gar rick, "I have sailed a long and painful TOTS** round...

...and odes, would they cope ? Their numbers retreat before Drydeu and Pope. And Johnson, well armed, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty* French, and will beat forty more ! TO BEN JONSON. MY epigrams come after yours in time ; So do they in conceit, in force, in rhyme....

...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." In return Johnson's surly remarks were perpetually travelling to Garrick' s ear. He was never weary...