Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion, of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 188
by Samuel Johnson - 1783
Full view - About this book

The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 47

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...Pope, that " he could felett from them better fpeeimens of every mode of poetry than any other Engliih writer could fupply. Perhaps no nation ever produced...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correftnefs of our fentiments. Fy him we were taught Japert & fari, to think naturally and expreis...
Full view - About this book

Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...Pope, that he could'felt'51 from tkem better fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Englljh writer could fupply- Perhaps no nation ever produced...we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of OUT metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...than any other Enghjh writer could fufply. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched hrs language with fuch variety of models. To him we owe...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the corredlnefs of our fcntiments. By him we were taught Japere & fan, to think naturally and exprefs forcibly....
Full view - About this book

Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...feicft from them better fpeclmens of every mode of poetry than any other Engiijh writer could, fwpply. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched...owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our nietfe, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we xvere...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...felefl from them hetter fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Engti/h writer could fuppfy. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the corre&nefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught fafere & fari, to think naturally and exprefs foreibly....
Full view - About this book

The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...feleft from them better fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Engli/b writer could fuppfy. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with fuch'variety of models. To him ive owethe improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement...
Full view - About this book

The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 2

English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...that " he could feleft from them better fpecimens " of every mode of poetry than any other " Englifh writer could fupply." Perhaps no nation ever produced...the refinement . of our language, and much of the correftnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught " fa" pere & fari," to think naturally and exprefc...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...tha* " he could felect from them better fpecimens of every " mode of poetry than any other Englifh writer could " fupply." Perhaps no nation ever produced...his language with fuch variety of models. To him we awe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much...
Full view - About this book

A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester ...

1793 - 806 pages
...cuccd a writer that enriched hi* lauguage with fuch variety of models. To him we owe the it provemcnt, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of к correíh'.efs of our fentimcBti. By him we were taught " fipsre et fari," to think naturally, *...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...that " he could felect from them better fpecimeru o£ every mode of poetry, than any other Englilh writer could fupply." Perhaps no nation ever produced...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the eorrectncfs of our fcntiments. By him we were taught " fapere et fari," to think naturally, and exprefs...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF