 | History - 1796 - 690 pages
...is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the A ntiments, and tuned the numbers of Eng'ifh poetry. " After about half a century of forced thoughts, and rugged metre, feme advances towards nature and harmony had been already made •by Waller and Denham : they had fhewn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...paid to him as he refined the language, improved the fentiments, and tuned the numbers of ,Englifli Poetry. After about half a century of forced thoughts, and rugged metre, fome ad-vances towards nature and harmony had .been already made .by Waller and Den.; they had. ftiewn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the fentiments, and tuned the numbers of Englifh Poetry, After about half a century of forced •thoughts, and rugged metre, fome ad•vances towards nature and harmony had i>een already made by Waller and Den;ham ; they had... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...numbers of Engliih Poeiry. ' After about half a century of forced thoughts, and rugged metre, fome advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham ; they had ftiewn that long difcourfes in rhyme grew more pleafing when they were broken into couplets, and that... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the fentiments, and tuned the numbers of Englifh Poetry. ' After about half a century of forced thoughts, and rugged metre, fome advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by VValler and Denham; they had ihewn... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...paid to him as he refined the language, improved the fentiments, and tuned the numbers of Englifti poetry. " After about half a century of forced thoughts, and rugged metre, fome advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denhain ; they had fliewn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 476 pages
...the numbers of Englifh Poetry. After about half a century of forced thoughts, and rugged metre, fome advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denhamj they had fhewn that long difcourfes in rhyme grew more pleafing when they were broken intp... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the fentiments, and tuned the numbers of Englifh Poetry. After about half a century of forced thoughts, and rugged metre, fome advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham; they had (hewn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the fentimentSi and tuned the numbers of Englifh Poetry. After about half a century of forced thoughts, and rugged metre, fomc advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denhamj they had fhewn... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the fentiments, and tuned the numbers of Englifh Poetry. After about half a century of forced thoughts , and rugged metre, fome advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham; they had fhewn... | |
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Dryden derives only his accidental and secondary praise ; the veneration with which his name is pronounced by every cultivator of English literature, is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English... 
