 | 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... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - Biography - 1928 - 1452 pages
...he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is z 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... 
