 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...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 - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...contemptuous superiority as ir.ade his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advoca^ the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperors determination, oderint dum metuaitt ; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...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
...him a haughty confidence, which hediidained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...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 - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or moderate; aud his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves; his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves; his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous...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 - English poetry - 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... | |
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His abilities gave him a 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... 
