| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 ページ
...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 ページ
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination, oderint dum metuaitt ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 ページ
...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...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... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 - 404 ページ
...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...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 - 1810 - 408 ページ
...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...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 - 1810 - 464 ページ
...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...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 - 1810 - 546 ページ
...used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.. • Hi* style i» 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 ページ
...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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