| Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...Pope. Dryden he praised for enriching the language with "a variety of models," and went on to say, "To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But it was Pope, who "professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden,"... | |
| Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
...further. Now, in the Lives, a long perspective implies that the project has reached its fulfillment. "To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments" (1: 469). The majestic first-person plurals convert a singular genius... | |
| Richard G. Terry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 378 pages
...attained only by Dryden: Johnson's 'Life of Dryden', for example, venerates Dryden as the poet to whom 'we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments'. 46 This supposed improvement of English versification, as well as of... | |
| Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...linking technique, versification, and diction with ideas of nature, national culture, and civilization: "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 were taught 'sapere et fari', to think naturally and express... | |
| René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 768 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 - 1825 - 530 pages
...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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