 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination, oderint dum metuaitt ; 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 sayfa
...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 to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 sayfa
...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination, oderinl 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 sayfa
...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 to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 sayfa
...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 to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 sayfa
...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 to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 sayfa
...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 to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 496 sayfa
...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 to compel rather than persuade. His style is 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... 
