...juvenile poems. Its critical notes have all the eloquence and strength of Johnson, without his envy. Johnson told me once, " he would hang a dog that read...returned the growler, " in a surfeit of bad taste." Thus it was, that the wit and awless impoliteness of the stupendous creature bore down, by storm, every...

...juvenile poems. Its critical notes have all the eloquence and strength of Johnson, without his envy. Johnson told me once, " he would hang a dog that read...returned the growler, " in a surfeit of bad taste." • Thus it was, that the wit and awless impoliteness of the stupendous creature bore down, by storm,...

...taste for poetry might be ascertained ; and an anecdote is recorded by her, which shows how completely at variance she and the author of the Rambler were...by heart; and who often repeat it to myself, with a deli lit " which grows by what it feeds upon ?" " Die," returned the growler, " in a surfeit of bad...

...Johnson told me once, " he would hang a dog that read the Lycidas twice." " What, then," replied 1, " must become of me, who can say it by heart ; and who...returned the growler, " in a surfeit of bad taste." Thus it was, that the wit and awless impoliteness of the stupendous creature bore down, by storm, every...

...me once, " he would hang a dog that read the Lycidas twice." " What then," icplied I, " must becoo c of me, who can say it by heart ; and who often repeat...returned the growler, " in a surfeit of bad taste." ISot to feel the wit of the reply is impossible ; but, after the smile which it must occasion has subsided...

...large head in silence. Johnson told me once, " he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of...returned the growler, " in a surfeit of bad taste." Thus it was that the wit and awless impoliteness of the stupendous creature bore down, by storm, every...

...large head in silence. Johnson told me once, " he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of...returned the growler, " in a surfeit of bad taste." Thus it was that the wit and awless impoliteness of the stupendous creature bore down, by storm, every...

...large head in silence. Johnson told me once, " he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of...returned the growler, " in a surfeit of bad taste." Thus it was that the wit and awless impoliteness of the stupendous creature bore down, by storm, every...

...told Anna Seward that " he would hang a dog that read that poem twice." " What then," said Anna, " must become of me, who can say it by heart, and who...myself with a delight which grows by what it feeds on ?" " Die," said Boswell's Bear, " in a surfeit of bad taste*." This is surely, not only what the...

...told Anna Seward that " he would hang a dog that read that poem twice." " What then," said Anna, " must become of me, who can say it by heart, and who...myself with a delight which grows by what it feeds on ?" " Die," said Boswell's Bear, " in a surfeit of bad taste*." This is surely, not only what the...