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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... "
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ... - Page 625
by John Nichols - 1812
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...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...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...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...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...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...
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Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...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...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.. • Hi* style iť 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...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...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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