 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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 inferiour wits, and corresponded... | |
 | 1826 - 434 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 - 1826 - 446 pages
...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, . .' • .l 1 . . * . ir* He had, in the early part of his life, pleased himself with the notice of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is eason bids us for our own provide : Passions, though...care ; Those, that imparted, court a nobler aim, I He had, in the early part of his life, pleased himself with the notice of inferior wits, and corresponded... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 592 pages
...used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than to persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness...coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured." In his own opinion, he was " frank, but honest; and, if plain, yet generous ; above all, a lover of... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 570 pages
...used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than to persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured." WARD, Artemas, the first major-general in the American army, graduated at Harvard college, in 1748.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than to persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured." WARD, Artenms, the first major-general in the American nrmy, graduated at Harvard college, in 1748.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; lie took the words thai 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 wits, and corresponded... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 546 pages
...used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than to persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured." WARD, Artemas, the first major-general in the American army, graduated at Harvard college, in 1748.... | |
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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... 
