...not please ; it commands, but does not allure ; his tropes are harsh and his combinations uncouth. He fell into an age in which our language began to lose...every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy. Milton, in consequence of this incroaching...

...time of Elizabeth, and was considered by every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy....encroaching license, began to introduce the Latin idiom ; nnd Browne, though he gave less disturbance to our structures in phraseology, yet poured in a multitude...

...without a. rival. The very words in which Dr Johnson depreciates this age as the time when ' our language was considered by every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill by moulding it according to his fancy,' might have been used by Coleridge in an entirely...

...Tropes are harfh, and his Combinations uncouth. He fell into an Age in which our Language began to lofe the Stability which it had obtained in the Time of Elizabeth; and was confidered by every 'Writer as a Subject on which he might try his plaftick Skill, by moulding it according...