 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty...is, that he was poor. THE poem of Hudibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast; as the images which it exhibits are domestick,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty...is, that he was poor. THE poem of Hudibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast; as the images which it exhibits are domestick,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor. ••• '• THE poem of Hqdibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor. . The poem of ' Hndibras' is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1820 - 458 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of bis life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor. BUTLER, James, duke of Ormond, a very celebrated statesman and warrior, in the reign of Charles II.,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...his language. The mode and place of bis education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty...that he was poor. The poem of "Hudibras" is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestic,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 pages
...is doubtful, the mode and place of his education are unknown, the events of his life are variously related, and all that can be told with certainty is that he was poor." A list of the portraits of Butler, in painting and engraving, may be found in Granger's History of... | |
 | 1836 - 600 pages
...language. 'The events of his life,' says his biographer whom we have already cited, ' are variously stated, and all that can be told with certainty is that he was poor. On a work so well known as Butler's Hudibras it is scarcely necessary to make a single remark. Voltaire... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 528 pages
...language. 'The events of his life,' suyt bis br>grapher whom we have already cited, 'are variously stair:. and all that can be told with certainty is that he was po- • On a work so well known as Butler's Hudibras it is ымпч ! necessary to make a single remark.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously a security against the waste of time, 0 ;...D "8 1837 G. Dearborn"# Johnson Samu those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestic,... | |
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In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that... 
