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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 450
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 pages
...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....
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 484 pages
...he could felecl from them better fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Engli/b •wrifcr could fupply. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the corre&nefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught fapere & far:, to think naturally and exprefs forcibly....
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Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pages
...from them better fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Eng/i/Jj •writer could fuppty . Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correclrte/s of our our fentiments. By him we were taught Japere &fari, to think naturally and exprcfs...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 456 pages
...Pope, that he could fekft from them better jpeclmcns of every mode of poetry than any other EngliJJ} writer could fupply. Perhaps no nation ever produced...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught fapere & fari, to think naturally and exprefs...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 484 pages
...no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with fuch variety of models. To him w? owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of pur language, and much of the corre&nefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught fapere & fari, to...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...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....
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...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, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught fapere &? fari, to think naturally and exprefs...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 2

English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...that " he could feleft from them better fpecimens " of every mode of poetry than any other " Englifh writer could fupply." Perhaps no nation ever produced...language, and much of the correftnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught " fa" pere & fari," to think naturally and exprefc forcibly. Though Davies has...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with fuch variety of models. To him we awe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we were taught " fapere & fari," to think naturally and exprefs...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester ...

1793 - 806 pages
...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, *...
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