 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1871 - 836 Seiten
...spiritual nature unexainined ; he has Ian-lit the Art of Reasoning and the. Science of the .Stars. ... As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably bave eUxxl high among the authors with whom be is now [in Johnson's) English Poets, 1779-81] associated.... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1884 - 744 Seiten
...inclination and a wish that way." Yet Dr. Johnson truly says, in his " Lives of the English Poets" : " As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably have stood high among the authors with whom he is now associated." He was wont to attach to his printed... | |
 | Rev. James King - 1885 - 350 Seiten
...from any single performance ; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity; yet perhaps there...excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits.' He was a man of great generosity and deep humility, and his Christian character was of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 Seiten
...from any single performance ; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity : yet perhaps there...excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. 33 As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably have stood high among the authors... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1911 - 750 Seiten
...from any single performance, for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet perhaps there...excelled if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. Of his philosophical pieces his Logic has been received into the universities, and therefore... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1911 - 750 Seiten
...from any single performance, for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet perhaps there...excelled if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. Of his philosophical pieces his Logic has been received into the universities, and therefore... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 Seiten
...from any single performance; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity; yet perhaps there...excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits." Having heard such tributes are we to leave the matter there and remind ourselves that it... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 2001 - 580 Seiten
...front any single performance ; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet perhaps there...excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits." The same author, after a critique upon his poetry, before noticed, conclude thus : " And... | |
 | Alan P. F. Sell, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - 2006 - 496 Seiten
...from any single performance; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity; yet perhaps there...excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably have stood high among the authors with... | |
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His character, therefore, must be formed from the multiplicity and diversity of his attainments, rather than from any single performance ; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet... 
