 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 700 pages
...as being ' copious without selection, and forcible without neatness.' ' He took,' adds the critic, ' the words that presented themselves ; his diction...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured.' What he says of it himself is this : ' I have so imperfect an idea of my subject, and rough-cast my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1866 - 654 pages
...high compliments paid him by Pope M he approached him.— Jos. WirrOH : Popft Worlct, ix. Ml. ness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure, aud his sentences are unmeasured. He had in the early part of his life pleased himself with the notice... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1871 - 832 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. " His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness;...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured." — Dn. JOHNSON: Lires of the Eng. Poet*: Pope: Cunningham's ed., 1854, iü. 68. See, also, Index,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1871 - 836 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. " His style JH copious without selection, and forcible without neatness; he took the words that presented themselves; hie diction i;* coarse »nd impure, and his sentences are iiniMeii<ured." — DR. JOHNSON: Lires of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured. He had, in the early part of his life, pleased himself with the notice of inferior wits, and corresponded... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, bit wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness:...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured. He had in the early part of his life pleased himself with the notice of inferior wits, and corresponded... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 470 pages
...questions, and before we parted was so well pleased with me that he patted me.' ' 'Warburton's style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness...coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured.' Johnson's Works, viii. 288. carrying . 72.] Johnsons use of the word ' lie.' 49 carrying you forward... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured. — Joknson's Life of Pope. From the writings of this author a more admirable specimen might be selected... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness;...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured. He had in the early part of his life pleased himself with the notice of inferior wits, and corresponded... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...than persuade. His style is copious without 1 1 selection, and forcible without neatness; he took tho words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured. He had in the early part of his life pleased himself with the notice of inferior wita, and corresponded... | |
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Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves... 
