 DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 375by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...of a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet. DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English...that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the vest, those who knew the laws of propriety had neglected -to teach them. Two Arts ofEngligh Poetry... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...of a man, whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet. DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the I writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet. . < • • , DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English...teach them. Two " Arts of English Poetry" were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which something might be learned, and a few hints... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet. DRYDEN may be properly considered as thefather as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of corns' position. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet. VOL. vi. 2 c DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English...teach them. Two "Arts of English Poetry" were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which something might be learned, and a few hints... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet. VOL. vi. 2 c DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English...teach them. Two "Arts of English Poetry" were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Putteuham, from which something might be learned, and a few hints... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...is most happily illustrated by the classic pen of that eminentwriter. " Dryden," says Dr, Johnson, " may be properly considered as the father of English...rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the l;ius of propriety had neglected to teach them. Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poetry was the first regular... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...of a man, whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet, DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English...greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted throngh life and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...sublimity variously modified, sometimes descriptive, sometimes argumentative. LIFE OF DRYDEN. Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English...teach them. Two Arts of English Poetry were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which something might be learned, and a few hints... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of onr former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without...teach them. Two Arts of English Poetry were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which something might be learned, and a few hints... | |
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