| John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...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 - 582 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 - 420 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... | |
| United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...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 - 486 pages
...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 - 410 pages
...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 - 644 pages
...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 - 466 pages
...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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 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 - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 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... | |
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