...and phraseology, yet poured in a multitude of exotic words. His style is, indeed, a tissue of Lmany languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought...and drawn by violence into the service of another." In the main, this criticism is just. What v Coleridge called Browne's " hyperlatinism," renders his...

...deep, but obscure ; it strikes, but dues not please ; it commands, but does not allure. . . . It is preach or pray. Look round our world ; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. According to Coleridge be is "rich in various knowledge, exuberant in conception and conceit: contemplative,...

...less disturbance to our structures and phraseology, yet poured in a multitude of exotic words. His style is indeed a tissue of many languages, a mixture...and drawn by violence into the service of another." On the whole, this criticism is not unjust. The hyperlatinism of Browne's style and its capricious...

...significant, which rejected would have to have been supplied by circumlocution. His style indeed was a tissue of many languages, " a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from different regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art and drawn by violence into the service...

...221. See ib. i. 308 for an example of Johnson's Brownism. Nevertheless he condemned Brown's style as ' a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from distant regions,' &c. Works, vi. 500. Murphy traces Johnson's learned diction to his work on the Dictionary. Ante, i....

...significant, which rejected would have to have been supplied by circumlocution. His style indeed was a tissue of many languages, " a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from different regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art and drawn by violence into the service...

...is true. As Johnson said, Browne used a quantity of "exotic words," and, continued the doctor, " his style is indeed a tissue of many languages, a mixture...and drawn by violence into the service of another." This charge is quite just. It is true also, and a droll fact it is, that Dr. Johnson himself was enamoured...

...less disturbance to our structures and phraseology, yet poured in a multitude of exotic words. His style is indeed a tissue of many languages, a mixture...words, brought together from distant regions, with terras originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another." On the...

...of view accepted by the greatest critic of the middle of the eighteenth century : — " [Browne's] style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture...one art, and drawn by violence into the service of anotheij/ He must, however, be confessed to have augmented our philosophical ^diction; and", in defence...

...a too literal translation. Dr. Johnson says with regard to Sir Thomas Browne's style, that it is ' a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous...and drawn by violence into the service of another. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy.' Sir Thomas Browne says of himself,...