 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 - Страница 118по Samuel Johnson - 1824Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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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