| Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 626 pages
...literature — •' a pinch from his snuff-box was a degree in the academy of wit." Johnson says of him, " Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of models." With the exception of Shakspeare Dryden is the author best known to Englishmen... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 738 pages
...that poetry which is written for musical accompaniment. — HENRY HALLAM. DRYDEN'S WORK IN LITERATURE. 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... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 654 pages
...that poetry which is written for musical accompaniment. — HENRY HALLAM. DRYDEN'S WORK IN LITERATURE. 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... | |
| John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 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 fan,' to think naturally and express... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 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... | |
| John Dryden - 1896 - 158 pages
...select from them better specimens of every sort 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." JOHNSON. " Educated in a pedantic taste and a fanatical religion, John Dryden... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Essays - 1898 - 234 pages
...Dryden. See p. 18, 1. 24, supra, and note. Dr. Johnson criticizes Dryden's characteristics thus : " 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...writer could supply." Perhaps no 30 nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such 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 fari, to think naturally and express... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1900 - 760 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 arc taught ' sapere et fari/ to think naturally and express... | |
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