 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...Warburton : ' His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 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...without selection, and forcible without neatness; he took the words that presented themselves : his diction is coarse and impure, and his sentences are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint, rium metuant: he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which hediidained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination, oderinl dum metuant ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...cautious. His ahilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or moderate; aud his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum meluant : he used no allurements of gentle language, hut wished to compel rather than persuade. His... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metu. ant ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...adversaries with such contemptuoas superiority, as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited agaiust the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause....adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuaiit ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. Hie... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure $ and his sentences... | |
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His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against... 
