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" The mind of the writer 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... "
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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Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 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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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1891 - 548 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.' Johnson's Works,...
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English Poems: The restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 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 His translations of...
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English Poems: The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 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 His translations of...
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Poems Published in 1768

Thomas Gray - 1915 - 252 pages
...very near to expressing the essential defects of Gray's 'grand > manner*. '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.' ' Ease and nature...
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A Book of English Literature, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 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 [90 visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. To say that he...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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 or nature. " To say that he has...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 29

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 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." Gray, who found fault...
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Thomas Gray: A Life

Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 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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