 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1801 - 424 pages
...great critic,-}-) " As a writer he was of the moft diftinguifhed abili" ties. Whatever he compofed, he did it better " than any other man could. And whether we " confider him as a Poet, as a Comic Writer, or " as an Hiftorian, (fo far as regards his powers of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...his ' Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his ' Traveller.' Whether we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian, he stands in the first class.' " We have before observed, that his poem pf " RETALIATION" was provoked... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...in the words of that great critic t,) " As a wri" ter, he was of the most distinguished abilities. " Whatever he composed, he did it better than any " other man could. And whether we consider him " as a Poet, as a Comic Writer, or as an Historian, ". (so far as regards his powers of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...nearly in the words of that great critic) " as a writer he •was of the most distinguished abilities. Whatever he composed he did it better than any other man could. And whether we consider him as a poet, «s a comic writer, or as an historian (so far as regards his powers of composition,),... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 552 pages
...29. 4th, Edit, + Ibid. Vol, III. p. 273. *' a writer he was of the most distinguished abilities. " Whatever he composed, he did it better than any other " man could. And whether we consider him as a Poet, " as a Comic Writer, or as an Historian, (so far as re*' gards his powers of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 516 pages
...that great critic), as a writer he was VOL. XVI. G 82 GOLDSMITH. of the most distinguished abilities. Whatever he composed he did it better than any other man could. And whether we consider him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian (so far as regards his powers of composition)... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...the words of that great critic), as a writer he was VOL. XVI. C of the most distinguished abilities. Whatever he composed he did it better than any other man could. And whether we consider him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian (so far as regards his powers of composition)... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...words of that great critic), as a writer he was • You XVI. G of the most distinguished ahilities. Whatever he composed he did it better than any other man could. And whether we consider him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian (so far as regards his powers of composition)... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...it better myself ! " With all his defects, as a writer, he was of the most distinguished abilities. Whatever he composed, he did it better than any other man could. He had the art of being minute without tedioushess, and general without confusion; copious without... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...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 will surely not rank his compilation... | |
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Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class. 
