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Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations - Page 238
by Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 239 pages
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...seems to work with unnatural violence. " Double, double, toil and trouble," He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature *. To say that he has...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...seems to work with unnatural violence. " Double, double, toil and trouble." He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature !. To say that he has...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...seems to work with unnatural violence. " Double, double, toil and trouble." He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. f * " I have a soul,...
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Sortes Horatianae: A Poetical Review of Poetical Talent, with Notes

1814 - 138 pages
...seems to work with unnatural violence. ' Double, double toil and trouble.' He has a kind of strutting dignity; and is tall by walking on tip-toe. His art and his struggle are loo visible; and there is too little appearance of ease and nature." The construction...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 29

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...seems to work with unnatural violence. ' Double, double, toil and trouble.' Hi" has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. To say that he has...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 7

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 pages
...seems to work with unnatural violence. " Double, double, toil and trouble." He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. To say that he has...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...seems to work wilh unnatural violence. ' Double, double, toil and trouble.< He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. To say that he had...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 pages
...seems to work with unnatural violence. " Double, double, toil and trouble." He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature *>. To say that he...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the English poets (cont ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...to work with unnatural violence. " Double, double, toil and ~ trouble." He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by - walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, - and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. To say that he has...
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...seems to work with unnatural violence. * Double, double, toil and trouble/ . He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.* To say that he had...
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