 | Robert Southey - Poets, English - 1839
...him, as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry." " To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, —~ and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But there was no subject of which Johnson, if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 502 pages
...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 - 1843
...Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of modele. BmF F%H&H $#7$7 < @ 8 E correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught »apere et fari, to think naturally and express... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843
...him, as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry." " To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre. — and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But there was no subject of which Johnson, if he... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Biography - 1846
...Johnson's earlier writings. " Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that united his language with such a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement,...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere et fan, to think naturally and express... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853
...him, as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry." "To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But there was no subject of which Johnson, if he knew... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854
...writer that enriched his language with swi variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhap the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him »? were taught " sapere et fari," to think naturally and expres... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854
...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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 438 pages
...Johnson's earlier writings. " Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that united his language with such a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement,...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere et fan, to think naturally and express... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858
...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... | |
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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. 
