...social usage to the verse in which they wrote and the language they used. "There was," said Dr. Johnson, "before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar...

...definite statement of the principles which settled whether a word was or was not suitable for verse. " There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical...the harshness of terms appropriated to particular 1 Dryden, Dedication of the Aeneis, Cambridge Poets, p. 518. ^ Johnson, The Rambltr, no. 168. 8 Pope's...

...selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion, and 20 every man took for every purpose what chance might...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,...

...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...him. There was therefore before the time of Dryden no NO poetical poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from for"thcbt!rae the grossness of...

...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors: our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...might offer him. There was therefore before the time [80 of Dryden no poetical diction: no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic...

...time of Dryden no poetical diction: no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated...Words too familiar or too remote defeat the purpose of the poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions we do not easily receive...

...sense may be so hidden in unrefined and plebeian words that none but philosophers can distinguish it. There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar...

...of the poet — led to the development of a standard metre, the heroic couplet, which had been a 1 'There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. . . . Those happy...

...Killigrcw. He praised the rhyme of Denham2 and Waller, which was "perfected by Dryden." As he said : "There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,...

...correctness in style. This, at least, was the opinion announced by Samuel Johnson in 1777 : "There was before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Those happy combinations...