...latter 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...

...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 of heterogeneous words, brought >gether from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence...

...indeed, a tiffue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from diftant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the fervice of another. He muft, however, be confeffed to have augmented our philofophical diction; and...

...words ' of Sir Thomas, saying that they are often ' superfluous ' and ' obscure,' and calling his style 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. Language, he adds, was...

...and antediluvian, gained currency. Samuel Johnson would observe that the words used by Browne "were originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another."82 Edmund Gosse was appalled by the way Browne used language: "There was something abnormal...

...a phrase that anticipates his criticism of the metaphysical poets in the "Life of Cowley." Browne's "style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture...and drawn by violence into the service of another." 148 The extract also includes Johnson's eloquent defense of Browne from charges of impiety and, what...

...pedantick, it is deep but obscure, it strikes but does not please, it commands but does not allure It is a tissue of many languages, a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from distant regions" ("Sir Thomas Browne" 4). His literary influence is especially evident in the works of Swift and Melville,...

...also Johnson's comments about the great excellencies and great faults of Thomas Browne's style: 'His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous words!' (Boswell, Life, 1756). 'A Babylonish Dialect' is a quotation from Samuel Butler, Hudibras, canto i,...

...Johnson's Life of Cowley, "the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together." 20 Browne's style "is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture...and drawn by violence into the service of another." But Johnson concedes that there is another side to the account: He must, however, be confessed to have...

...indeed, a Tiflue of many Languages ; a Mixture of heterogeneous Words, brought together from diftant Regions, with Terms originally appropriated to one...drawn by Violence into the Service of another. He muft, however, be confefled to have augmented our philofophical Diction ; and in Defence of his uncommon...