| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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