 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 sider
...Pope, that " he could felett from them better fpeeimens of every mode of poetry than any other Engliih writer could fupply. Perhaps no nation ever produced...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correftnefs of our fentiments. Fy him we were taught Japert & fari, to think naturally and expreis... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 sider
...than any other Enghjh writer could fufply. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched hrs language with fuch variety of models. To him we owe...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the corredlnefs of our fcntiments. By him we were taught Japere & fan, to think naturally and exprefs forcibly.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 sider
...language with fuch variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of OUT metre, the refinement of our language, and much of...correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught Japere & fari, to think naturally and exprefs forcibly. He taught us that it i was poffible to reafon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 sider
...language with fuch variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our nietfe, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we xvere taught Japere £5* farit to think naturally and exprels forcibly. He taught us that it was poffible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 sider
...felefl from them hetter fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Engti/h writer could fuppfy. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the corre&nefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught fafere & fari, to think naturally and exprefs foreibly.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 sider
...nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with fuch'variety of models. To him ive owethe improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre,...fari, to think naturally and exprefs forcibly. Though Davis has reafoned in rhyme be- \ fore him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the firft who... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 sider
...paternal thunder vindicates his throne. Of Of Dvyden's works it was faid by Pope, that " he could feleft from them better fpecimens " of every mode of poetry...the refinement . of our language, and much of the correftnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught " fa" pere & fari," to think naturally and exprefc... | |
 | 1793 - 806 sider
...cuccd a writer that enriched hi* lauguage with fuch variety of models. To him we owe the it provemcnt, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of к correíh'.efs of our fentimcBti. By him we were taught " fipsre et fari," to think naturally, *... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 sider
...Pope, that he could jele£t from them better fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Englijh 'writer could fupply. Perhaps no nation ever produced...correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught fapere &fari, to think naturally and exprefs forcibly. He taught us that it was poflible to reafon in rhyme.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 sider
...that " he could felect from them better fpecimeru o£ every mode of poetry, than any other Englilh writer could fupply." Perhaps no nation ever produced...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the eorrectncfs of our fcntiments. By him we were taught " fapere et fari," to think naturally, and exprefs... | |
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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. 
