 | SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 ページ
...magnified by affectation*1 tire language is laboured into ; Karfhnefs; ffcc mind of the writer feems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble* He has a kind of ilrutting .dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and Ws ftruggle are too v'tfible, and... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 ページ
...are magnified by affectation ; the language is laboured into harfhncfs. The mind of the writer feems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of flrutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his ftrug^le are too viliblc, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 ページ
...fcems to work with unnatural vio, lence. Doubly double, toil and trouble. He . has a kind of ftrutting dignity, and is tall by - walking on tiptoe. His art and his flruggle ^ are too vifible, and there is too little appear• ance of eafe or nature. To fay that he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 ページ
...feems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, tcil and trolls. He has a kind of ftrutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his flruggle are too vifible, and there is too little appearance of eafe or nature, To fay that he has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 ページ
...feems to work with unnatural vio: lence. ^Double, double^ toil and trouble. He has a kind of ftrutting dignity, and is tall by ; walking on tiptoe. His art and his ftruggle - are too vifible, and there is too little appear„ "since of eafe or nature. To fay that... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 ページ
...toil and trouble.* He (the author of an -Elegy in a country church-yard^ ' has a kind of ' ftrutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tip-toe. His art ' and his ftruggle are too vifible, and there is too little ap' pearance of eafe, or nature. In all Gray's odes,... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 ページ
...feem«1 to work with unnatural violence. DcuHe, dcubl'e, tail and trouble. He has a kind of limiting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his flruggle are too vifible, arid there is too little appearance of cafe or nature. '* To fay that he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 ページ
...are magnified by affectation ; the language is laboured into harmnefs. The mind of the writer feems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of limiting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his ftruggle are too vifible, and there... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 ページ
...feems to work with unnatural violence. Double, druble, toil and trouble. He has a kind of ftrutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his ftruggle are too vifible, and there is too little appearance of eafc and nature. To fay that he has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 ページ
...feems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toll and trouble. He has a kind of ftrutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his ftruggle are too vifible, and there is too little appearance of eafe and nature. To fay thar he has... | |
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These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments; they strike, rather than please; the images are magnified by affectation; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence.... 
