 | John Dryden - 1811
...writer could fupply." Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with fuch a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement,...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught " fapere and fari," to think naturally and exprefs... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 445 pages
..." could " feleQ from them better fpecimens of every mode of poetry " than any other Englifh writer could fupply." Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with fur ha variety of models. To him we owe. the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811
...select from them better specimens of every mode of poetry than any other English writer could supply." Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement... | |
 | United States - 1814
...under this grievous yoke. Dryden, of whom Johnson has said, perhaps, with exaggerated praise, that " to him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion, of our metre," calls rhyme, " At best, a pleasing sound, and fair barbarity." Roscommon confesses, that rhyme is the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816
...from them better specimens of every " modeof poetry than any other English writer could " supply." Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818
...from them better specimens of every " mode of poetry than any other English writer could " supply." Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819
...writer could supply." Perbsp) nonatíon ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, thf refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him ire were taught,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820
...could supply." Perhaps no nation ever produced awriter that enriched his language with such avariety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiVOL. ix. F f inents. By him we were taught " sapere et fari," to think naturally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820
...select from them better specimens of every mode of poetry than any other English writer could supply." 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823
...select from them better specimens of every mode of poetry than any other English writer could supply." 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... | |
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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. 
