| John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...writer could supply Perhaps no nation ever pfocluced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre." — Samuel Johnson. " His versification flowed so easily as to lessen the bad effects of rhyme in dialogue.... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...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,...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere etjari, — to think naturally and express... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 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 - 1913 - 220 pages
...writer that enriched his language. 2<fwith such variety of models. To him we owe the improveI ment, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. 3y him we were taught sapere etfari, to think naturally and l^express... | |
| Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 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, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...writer could supply. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language 20 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... | |
| Laurie Magnus - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 616 pages
...basis of Dr. Johnson's judgment (op. cit., ' Dryden '), which later criticism has confirmed, that ' 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... | |
| René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 378 pages
...and Denham, who "traced the new scheme of poetry." m The actual founder of the new style was Dryden: "To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments." "• Before the time of Dryden "there was no poetical diction: no system... | |
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