 | Isaac Watts - 1834 - 174 páginas
...from any single performance ; for it would not he 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 heen only a poet, he would probably have stood high among the authors with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 páginas
...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...have excelled, if he had not divided his powers to différent pursuits. As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably have stood high among the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 páginas
...single performance ; for, though it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet, perhaps, there...have excelled, if he had not divided his powers to diffèrent pursuits." Watts' ' Psalms and Hymns' are well-known, and need not be here made the subject... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 256 páginas
...single performance ; for, though it would not be safe to claim for huu the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet, perhaps, there...excelled, if he had not divided his powers to different pursuits." Watts' ' Psalms and Hymns' are well-known, and need not be here made the subject of criticism.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 páginas
...from any single performance ; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single y ever found a stranger, whom he did not leave a friend...but it must likewise be added that he had not oft hau not divided his powers to different pursuits. As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet perhaps there wag 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 páginas
...highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity : yet perhaps there was nothing in winch pursuits. As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably have stood high among the authors with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 páginas
...from any single performance; for it would not ho safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single at "it was more eligible logo hau not divided his powers to different pursuits. As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably... | |
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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... 
