In his Essays he has this Expression, A Man may act an Excellency for the Satisfaction if Significancy, which has the same Effect in Prose, as it is observ'd of some good Verses, that the Smoothness or Roughness of the Numbers are an Image of the Roughness or Smoothness of the Thing.
"An Essay on Criticism"
John Oldmixon
I am so very well entertain'd with Dryden's Virgil, that I am glad to meet with any Excuse for his Translation; and would allow Dr. Felton's, that the Faults are to be ascribed partly to some Defects of our Language; if the Doctor himself, a few Lines before, had not said of the same Language, that it is capable of all the Beauty, Strength, and Significancy of the Greek and Latin.
"An Essay on Criticism"
John Oldmixon
Thaddeus uttered a few inarticulate words, whose Significancy conveyed nothing, but all he felt was declared in their confusion.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter