 | Biography - 1817 - 490 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;...Warburton's whole constitution, bodily as well as mental, seemed to indicate that he was born to be an extraordinary man : with a large and athletic person he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 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...presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure > *nd his sentences are unmeasured. He had in the early part of his life, pleased himself with the... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Bath (England) - 1819 - 398 pages
...combating the enemies of that faith, of which your Majesty is the avowed and zealous Defender."— WABHEB. words that presented themselves; his diction is coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured." * • -i: The back part of PRioR-PARK-HousE is also extremely elegant, and ornamented with six very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. 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 wits, and corresponded... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 406 pages
...wished to iel, wither thanipersuade.. . . . • ,: ,,i,.. .,.,;< is copious without selection, aud forcible, without neatness ; he took the words that...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured. Jtfffe. hidv' in.-' the early part of his life, pleased himself with the notice of inferior wits, and... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...Jonson 8 Diseoveriei. ,tyl. ntjle is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ( lie took the words that presented themselves ; his diction...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured. — Johnson's Lift tf Pope. From the writings of this author a more admirable specimen might be selected... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...he nsed 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 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 iuferiour wits, 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... 
