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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page iv
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 47

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...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...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...Pope, that he could'felt'51 from tkem better fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Englljh writer could fupply- Perhaps no nation ever produced...we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of OUT metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctnefs of our fentiments. By him we...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...feicft from them better fpeclmens of every mode of poetry than any other Engiijh writer could, fwpply. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched...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...
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
...he could feletf from them better Jpecimens of .every mode' of poetry than any other Englifh ivriter could fupply . Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 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
...feleft from them better fpecimens of every mode of poetry than any other Engli/b writer could fuppfy. Perhaps no 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...
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