 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...compel 'in rather than persuade. it His style is copious without selection, and forcible with- I out neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves...his diction is coarse and impure, and his sentences -Iv are unmeasured. * 1 William Warburton (1698-1779), Bishop of Gloucester, a celebrated critic and... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 636 pages
...through all the possibilities of things." " His style is copious without selection," says Dr. Johnson, " and forcible without neatness; he took the words that...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured." IS LUXURY A PUBLIC BENEFIT ? To the lasting opprobrium of our age and country, we have seen a writer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 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 - 1899 - 236 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 428 pages
...regarded, perhaps, as a tolerable specimen of Warburton's style ; which, according to Doctor 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 Sclwyn. GLOUCESTER,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 400 pages
...regarded, perhaps, as a tolerable specimen of Warburton's style ; which, according to Doctor 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,... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 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... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 666 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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 438 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." In summing up the intellectual character of Pope, Dr. Johnson's usual acuteness and discernment have... | |
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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... 
