...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 historian ? My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation...

...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 Brinsley...

...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, " he...

...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...

...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, " Jie...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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, " he...

...'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his 'Traveller.1 Whether, indeed, we take " stands in the first class." BOSWELL : " An historian ? My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation...