 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...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
...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 - 420 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 - 442 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
...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
...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
...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
...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... | |
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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... 
