| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...language is • laboured into harfhnefs. The mind of the . writer feems to work with unnatural vio: lence. ^Double, double^ toil and trouble. He has a kind of...ftruggle - are too vifible, and there is too little appear„ "since of eafe or nature. To fay that lie has no beauties, would be unjuft : a man like him,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...language is .laboured into harfhnefs. The mind of the .writer feems to work with unnatural vio. lence. Double, double, toil . and trouble. He has a kind...ftruggle - are too vifible, and there is too little appear: ance.of eafe or nature. To fay that he "has no beauties, would be iinjuft : a man like him,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...is , laboured into harfhnefs. The mind of the writer fcems to work with unnatural vio, lence. Doubly double, toil and trouble. He . has a kind of ftrutting...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 pages
...harfhnefe. The mind of the writer 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 - 292 pages
...ilrutting .dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and Ws ftruggle are too v'tfible, and riiere is too little Appearance of eafe or nature. To fay that he has no beauties would be unjuft : a man like him, of great learning and great .indisftry, cou.ld not but produce fomething valuable*... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...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 there is too little appearance of eafe or nature. Whether the whole of... | |
| James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 pages
...violence. Double, double, toil and trouble.* He (the author of an -Elegy in a country church-yard^ ' has a kind of ' ftrutting dignity, and is tall by...ftruggle are too vifible, and there is too little ap' pearance of eafe, or nature. In all Gray's odes, there is ' a kind of cumbrous.) fplendour which... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pages
...trouble. He has a kind of (Inuring dignity, and it tali by walking on tiptoe. His art and his druggie are too vifible, and there is too little appearance of eafe or nature. ' To fay tii. i! he has no beauties would be unjuit : a man like him, «f great learning and great indullry,... | |
| Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...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 pages
...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...vifible, and there is too little appearance of eafe and nature. To lay that he has no beauties, would be unjufl : a man like him, of great learning and... | |
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