...Sight. 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." It is, perhaps, needless to mention, that forty was the number of the French academy, at the time when...

...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. " It is, perhaps, needless to mention, that forty was the number of the French academy, at the time...

...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...

...and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well-arm'd, friends are present, for then I fall upon soft : " 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'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French,' and will beat forty more ! w Johnson this year gave at once a proof of his benevolence, quickness of apprehension, and admirable...

...and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope : And Johnson, well-arm'd, otland," which I used in the sense of being of that country ; and, as ! " Johnson this year gave at once a proof of his benevolence, quickness of apprehension, and admirable...

...supposed superiority of one 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...

...achieved single-handed what the whole French Academy merely attempted. "And Johnson," wrote Garrick, " well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat Forty French, and will beat forty more." In brief, his dictionary is burly, strenuous, and insolent as himself, and after Boswell's Life, it...

...imagines his friend pitted 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...

...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 ! " Johnson this year gave at once a proof of his benevolence, quickness of apprehension, and admirable...