Writing of such a kind as Rockney's was new to a land where the political opinions of Joint Stock Companies had rattled Jovian thunders obedient to the nod of Bull.
Though not alone in working the change, he was the foremost.

And he was not devoid of style.

Fervidness is the core of style.

He was a tough opponent for his betters in education, struck forcibly, dexterously, was always alert for debate.

An encounter between Swift and Johnson, were it imaginable, would present us probably the most prodigious Gigantomachy in literary polemics.