 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...to the use of antiquated and hard words, for which Johnson was censured, he says in Idler No. 90, " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." 18 30-32. brilliancy . . . eloquence . . . humour. Johnson wrote many of these discourses so hastily,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 152 pages
...to the use of antiquated and hard words, for which Johnson was censured, he says in Idler No. 90, " He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." 18 30-32. brilliancy . . . eloquence . . . humour. Johnson wrote many of these discourses so hastily,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. ' spent his whole life in cour V He once told me, that he had formed his 1 Yet his style did not escape the harmless shafts of pleasant... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 232 pages
...restrained by tradition, had his own tendencies to extravagance of diction, and excused them by saying, " He that thinks with more extent than another will...words of larger meaning; he* that thinks with more subtlety will seek for" terms of more nice discrimination." Browne, with his instinct for reducing... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1907 - 442 pages
...Johnson's sentences were "done out of English into Johnsonese." Johnson himself observes (Idler, No. 70), "He that thinks with more extent than another will want words of larger meaning." He remarked of a dramatic burlesque (The Rehearsal): " It has not wit enough to keep it sweet;" then after... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." He once told me that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple and upon Chambers's Proposal... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." He once told me that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple and upon Chambers's Proposal... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning." He once told me that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple and upon Chambers's Proposal... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 590 pages
...lists. embroidery, but part of the very texture of his thought ' Difference of thoughts,' he said, 'will produce difference of language. He that thinks...want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination1.' As we read him and accustom our minds to... | |
 | 588 pages
...sense an embroidery, but part of the very texture of his thought. ' Difference of thoughts,' he said, 'will produce difference of language. He that thinks...want words of larger meaning ; he that thinks with subtlety will seek for terms of more nice discrimination1.' As we read him and accustom our minds to... | |
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That some of them have been adopted by him unnecessarily, may perhaps be allowed ; but in general they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want... 
