 | John Heneage Jesse - Politicians - 1844 - 414 pages
...regarded perhaps as a tolerable specimen of Warburton's style ; which, according to Dr. Johnson, was " copious without selection, and forcible without neatness;...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured." His death took place at Gloucester on the 7th of June 1779. BISHOP WARBURTON TO GEORGE SELWYN. Gloucester,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 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;...his diction is coarse and impure; and his sentences arc unmeasured. He had, in the early part of his life, pleased himself with the notice of inferior... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 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-generai in the American army, graduated at Harvard college, in 1748.... | |
 | John Gorton - Biography - 1851 - 690 pages
...used DO allurement« of gentle language, hut wished to compel rather than to persuade. His en le is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured." — E HCVT. ftrif. /It/cm'* Gen. Bivg. WARD (EDWARD) a burlesque poet ami miscellaneous writer, born... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1853 - 566 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." Life of Pope. In 1789 Dr. Samuel Parr published, Tracts, by Warburton, and a Warburtonian (Hurd) not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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 - 1856 - 512 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 - 1861 - 660 pages
...The Divine Legation of Moses. Printed for J. Robinson.'— IliWKlxs: Liff n/Johtuion, p. 69. ness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure, and his sentences arc unmeasured. lie had iu the early part of his life pleased himself with the notice of inferior wits,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Catalogs, Dictionary - 1862 - 432 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." — (Johnson's Life of Pope.) The Alliance between Church and State. 2d edition. 8vo. London, 1751.... | |
 | T. S. Memes - Theology, Doctrinal - 1867 - 548 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. HI. style is ng upon themselves swift destruction," 2 Pet. ii....eternal life in any other •way than he hath pointed — Johnson'! Lij<~ ttfPope. For a view of the character moro favourable, but not more |ust, I would... | |
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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... 
