 | René Wellek - Criticism - 1978 - 754 pages
...W. Roberts (4 Bde. London, 1834), /, 174. 124. Lives, I (Denham), 77. 125. ebenda (Dryden), S. 469 : »To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments.« 126. ebenda, S. 420: »...there was no poetical diction: no system... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825
...writer that enriched his language with such a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, prehaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught " sapere et farl" to think naturally and express... | |
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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. 
