 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 Seiten
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperour's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.' Johnson's Works, viii. 288. See ante, ii. 41, and iv. 55. APPENDIX B. (Page 181.) Johnson's Ode written... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 Seiten
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination, oderint dum metuaitt ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished...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 with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 Seiten
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint, rium metuant: he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished...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 with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination, oderinl dum metuant ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished...coarse and impure, and his sentences are unmeasured. 7 He had, in the early part of his life, pleased himself with the notice of inferior wits, and corresponded... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 Seiten
...Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum meluant : he used no allurements of gentle language, hut wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcihle without neatrress; he took the words that presented themselves: his diction is coarse and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 Seiten
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished...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 with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 Seiten
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements, of gentle language, but wished...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 with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 Seiten
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished...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 with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.. • Hi* style i» copious without selection, and forcible without neatness;...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 with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuaiit ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. Hie style i- copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented... | |
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... impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman... 
