...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet?" Johnson at once felt himself roused; and answ.ar. ed, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." After having on some occasion made observations upon the similarity between ' Rasselas' and * Candide,'...

...do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet f" Johnson at once felt himself roused; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, " Boswell, you...

...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet 1" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, " Boswell, you...

...do yoe reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ? Johnson at onc<? felt himself roused; and auswere d, Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of my telf in company, he said to me, Boswell, you often...

...do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." After having on some occasion made observations upon the similarity between '• Rasselas' and ' Candida,*...

...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point, of precedency between a louse and a flea." Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, " Boswell, you...

...he), do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet?" Johnson at once felt himself roused; and answered, "Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." : After having on some occasion made observations upon the similarity between " Rasselas " and " Candide,"...

...philosophy." (C. Mather.) Miscellanea Cvriosa 3 F. pi. 1726, &cc. Derrick's Letters from Leverpoole, See 2 H. 1767 It was on D., as compared with Smart, that Johnson...thought very pretty letters.' Descartes' Meditations, &c. by Molyneux (v. //o6J«)... 1GSS Deverell's Discoveries in Hieroglyphics, &C....G pi. 1813 Suppressed...

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...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." [It has been asserted .(European Mag. 1796, 1 [The accuracy of this ass.rtion seems doubtful ; at which...