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" Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class. "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Seite 82
1814
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Lives of Eminent Novelists and Dramatists

Walter Scott - 1887 - 674 Seiten
...and future generations. " As a writer," says Dr. Johuson, " he was of the most distinguished class. Whatever he composed, he did it better than any other man could. And whether we regard him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as a historian, he was one of the ^ writers of his time,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Band 2

James Boswell - 1889 - 504 Seiten
...Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his ' Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class." BOSWELL. "An 1 The allusion is not to the Tale of a Tub, but to the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Comprising a Series of His Epistolary ...

James Boswell - 1890 - 568 Seiten
...Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his ' Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take he stands in the first class." BOSWELL : "An historian ? My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his...
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Notes on English Literature

Fred Parker Emery - 1891 - 190 Seiten
...and diction. His Histories are merely hack compilations, but bright and readable. " Whether we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian, he stands in the first class." — Johnson. The Rivals. The Duenna. The School for Scandal. Richard...
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English Men of Letters, Band 11

John Morley - 1894 - 618 Seiten
...that genius which he had been amongst the first to recognize and encourage. " Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic, writer, or as an historian," he announced to an assemblage of distinguished persons met together at dinner at Mr. Beauclerc's, "...
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Introduction to English Literature: Including a Number of Classic Works ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 Seiten
...in the clear arrangement of facts and in his felicitous mode of treatment. "Whether indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian," declared Johnson, " he stands in the first class." In 1770 appeared the "Deserted Village." In this...
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Milton, Band 2,Teil 1

Mark Pattison - 1895 - 570 Seiten
...that genius which he had been amongst the first to recognise and encourage. " Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian," he announced to an assemblage of distinguished persons met together at dinner at Mr. Beauclerc's, "...
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Some of Our English Poets

Charles Dent Bell - 1895 - 296 Seiten
...though the thought is expressed in prose. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. WHETHER, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Such was Johnson's verdict on the power and versatility of Oliver Goldsmith,...
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Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith - 1898 - 344 Seiten
...but when he comes into company, grows confused, and unable to talk. . . . Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian, he stands in the first class." These were the words of the great Dictator himself; and, though Boswell...
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A History of English Literature: By F.V.N. Painter

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 Seiten
...the clear arrangement of facts and in his felicitous mode of treatment. " Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian," declared Johnson, " he stands in the first class." In 1770 appeared the "Deserted Village." In this...
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