 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...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 118by Samuel Johnson - 1824Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...keen, the wholesome air of poverty.' Johnson said of Warburton : ' His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify...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
...be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify...adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as ir.ade his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advoca^ the wishes of some who favoured... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify...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
...pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which hediidained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition...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 - 494 pages
...be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...his pursuits too eager to be aVways cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which lie disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience...adversaries with such contemptuous superiority, as made his reader* commonly his enemies, and excited ag-iinst the advocate trie wishes of some who favoured the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...always exact, and his pursuit* too eager to IM? always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of oppositiqp disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuoas superiority, as made his readers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious . His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify;...adopted the Roman emperor's determination, oderint, dum meluant : he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 736 pages
...cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and liis impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his...to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, Oilerint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.... | |
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