 | T. P. Grinsted - Great Britain - 1859 - 304 pages
...he has been principally elevated from his strength of thought and diction. Johnson says of him : " 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 445 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 a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 662 pages
...characteristics is admirable, has thus tersely summed up his general services to the English language : " To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we are taught 'sapere et fari,' to think naturally ;md express... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 516 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 a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872
...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,...the completion of our metre, the refinement of our langudge, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere et fari, to think... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872
...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, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refmement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1874
...that first taught Pope. I cannot end better than by quoting Dr. Johnson's opinion of Dryden : — " To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we are taught " sapere et fari," to think naturally and express... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 422 pages
...Perhaps," says Dr. Johnson " no nation ever produced "a writer that enriched 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 /ari, to "think naturally and express... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken, Robert Burns - 1876 - 422 pages
..."Perhaps," says Dr. Johnson "no nation ever produced " a writer that enriched his language with such a variety " of models. To him we owe the improvement,...the refinement ' of our language, and much of the correctness of our ' sentiments. By him we were taught sapere et fari, to ' think naturally and express... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879
...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. 
