...indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one...drawn by violence into the Service of another. He must, however, be confessed to have augmented our philosophical diction : and in defence of his uncommon...

...it is ' a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one...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,...

...indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to 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...

...it is a 'tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one...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...

...indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought >gether from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one...and drawn by violence into the service of another." In the main, this criticism is just. What Coleridge called Browne's '' hyperlatinism," renders his...

...indeed a tissue of many languages, a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one...drawn by violence into the service of another. He must, however, be confessed to have augmented our philosophical diction, and in defence of his uncommon...

...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...

...style a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one...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...

...indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one...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...