 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 pages
...him, as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry." " To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, — and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But there was no subject of which Johnson, if he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...•writer could supply." Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : Yet 'lis...part, That shows more cost than art, Jewels at nose a correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere et fan, to think naturally and express... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 382 pages
...him, as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry." " To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, — and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But there was no subject of which Johnson, if he... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 380 pages
...him, as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry." " To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, —~ and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But there was no subject of which Johnson, if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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 tanght ' sapere et fari/ to think naturally and express... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of modele. BmF F%H&H $#7$7 < @ 8 E correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught »apere et fari, to think naturally and express... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 388 pages
...him, as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry." " To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre. — and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But there was no subject of which Johnson, if he... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 pages
...Johnson's earlier writings. " Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that united his language with such a 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 fan, to think naturally and express... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 526 pages
...him, as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry." "To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, and much of the correctness of our sentiments." But there was no subject of which Johnson, if he knew... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...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,...metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere etfari, to think naturally and express... | |
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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. 
