...epistles, and odes would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope; And Johnson, well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. Some of Johnson's definitions have given the world amusement since the day of publication. Let me give...

...Spittal, Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Johnson 1923, S. 57] mit dem Schluß: And Johnson, well-arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. 7) Beispiele aus Pope, Addison, Dryden. 8) Kleuker, aa O. 39, Anm. 2 verweist auf d ' 0 1 ivet , Histoire...

...epistles, and odes would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope; And Johnson, well ann'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. IV Some of Johnson's definitions have given the world amusement since the day of publication. Let me...

...101. ?Cf. Ganick's verses in The Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1755, ending And Johnson, well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more. Cf., also, the review in Maty's Journal Britannique, 1775, xvn, p. 219: Mr. Johnson peat se glorifier....

...to a Frenchman." (James Boswell, The Life of Johnson, anecdote dated 1 748) And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more! (David Garrick, "On Johnson's Dictionary," April 1755)1 I JOHNSON'S GREAT Dictionary of the English...

...the achievement epitomized by Garrick's epigram which ends with the lines 'And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, / Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more!' (Boswell, vol. i, Bogel, 'Johnson and the Role of Authority', p. 205. Robert Folkenflik also observes...

...quick to see his former teacher as a national hero. In a poem he exclaims, 'And Johnson, well arm'd, like a hero of yore, / Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more'.3 Just before the Dictionary was published, Lord Chesterfield, Johnson's cool patron, was entreated...

...work which equalled, if not surpassed, that produced by the Academie Francaise ('Johnson, well-arm'd like a hero of yore Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more!', as Garrick declaimed in celebration of this dual contribution to national honour and English lexicography...

...Italian academies. In his poem On Johnson's 'Dictionary', David Garrick wote: And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more! Johnson himself wrote in the Dictionary, 'We have long preserved our constitution, let us make some...

...upon a similar task by the French Academy, and conclude with the couplet : ' And Johnson well arm'd, like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, and will beat forty more.' That, I think, is the only reference to Johnson in Garrick's poetical works ; but there are some well-known...