The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume VII, Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller, G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York, 1911

Coleridge who...might have been expected to be a thoroughgoing admirer of Browne, does, indeed, accuse him of being a corrupter of language. But the passage in which the accusation occurs is a mass of anachronisms; it was evidently written in one of the well known Coleridgean fits of "fun," as Lamb called them, that is to say, of one-sided crochet; and the corruption alleged is that of a purely fanciful standard of Elizabethan English which appears to have have been blended for himself by the critic out of two such isolated, anything but contemporary, and singularly different, exemplars as Latimer and Hooker. 269

Shelburne Essays, Paul Elmer More, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1909

Of style in one sense he possesses indeed little; unless sustained by poetic emotion, he never safe from floundering in the most awkward verbiage. He is, more perhaps than any other author in English, dependent for his fame on purple patches. But at its best there is I know not what excellence of sound in his language, a melody through which we seem to catch echoes of other-worldly music that lift the hearer into an ecstasy of admiration. He has, as he himself might say, transfused into words the magic of that Pythagorean numerosity which forever haunted his understanding...It is not easy to discover the secret of these harmonies in the words of Sir Thomas Browne himself, for his manner varies from page to page. at times, especially in his earlier works, the language is brief and direct, built up on the simplest Anglo-Saxon roots. More often it has a touch of exotic strangeness, due principally to the excess of Latin.