| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 Seiten
...science of the stars. fbrmance ; 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 Seiten
...safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet per. haps there was nothing in which he would not have excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. As a poet, had he heen only a poet, he would prohahly have stood high among the authors with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 Seiten
...nothing in which he would not have 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 whom he is now associated. For his judgment was exact, and he noted... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 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...nothing in which he would not have excelled, if he had wot divided his powers to different pursuits. As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 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. His entire works have been published in six volumes quarto, and more recently in octavo ;... | |
| 1817 - 504 Seiten
...safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet perbaps there was nothing in which he would not have excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. His entire works have been published in six volumes quarto, and more recently in octavo ;... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 Seiten
...(ingle performance; for it would not be safe (perhaps) to claim for him the highest rank in auy single denomination of literary dignity; yet perhaps there was nothing in which he would nut have excelled if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. " As a poet, had he been... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 Seiten
...(perhaps) to claim for him the highest rank in arty single denomination of literary dignity; yet perbapt there was nothing in which he would not have excelled if he had nol divided his powers to different pursuits. " As a poet, had he been only a poet, h* would probably... | |
| Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 566 Seiten
...from any sfngle 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 poetj he would probably have stood high among the authors with... | |
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