refine quotes

I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
^2  In The Rambler.

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

-Swift,Jonathan
  'On Poetry', l.85^8.

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