 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 548 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 ; [te among the poets, the lives of "whom,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 490 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 - 490 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;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 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... | |
 | John Bullar - 1820 - 134 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.'-'* In the popish rebellion of 1745, the Rev. William Budworth was minister of St. Michael's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 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 was nothing in which he would not have exelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. As a poet, had he been only a poet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 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 was nothing in which he couhl not have excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. As a poet, had he... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1821 - 206 Seiten
...claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity; yet perhaps there is 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 402 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 was nothing in which he would not have exelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits. As a poet, had he been only a poet,... | |
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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... 
