 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 270 pages
...wondered, in the reading, what, was become of those glaring colours whic'i amazed me in Bussy Damboys upon the theatre : 'but when I had taken up what I...it was shooting: a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gi~ gantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the sense... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 562 pages
...wondered, in the reading, what was become of those glaring colours which amazed me in BUSSY D'AMBOIS' upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I...I found I had been cozened with a jelly : nothing ' Atragedy written by George Chapman, and printed in 1607. This play not only appears to have been... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...wondered, in the reading, what was become of those glaring colours which amazed me in " Bussy D'Amboys" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I...dressed up in gigantic words, repetition, in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...become of those glaring colours which amazed me in Bussy D'Ambois upon the theatre; but »hen 1 h.vl taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I...longer than it was shooting. A dwarfish thought dressed Op in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of espression, and gross hyperboles ; the... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...was become of those glaring colnnrs which amazed me in lla^y D'jtmbois upon the theatre : but when \ had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ; nothing but ,-i rolrt dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting. A dwarfish thought dressed up... | |
 | Homer, George Chapman - Greek poetry - 1818 - 278 pages
...wondered, in the reading, what was become of those glaring colours which amazed me in Bussy d'Ambois upon the theatre; but when I had taken up what I supposed...dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten... | |
 | Homerus - 1818 - 290 pages
...wondered, in the reading, what was become of those glaring colours which amazed me in Bussy d'Ambois upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I...nothing but a cold dull mass, which glittered no longer thaa it was shooting. A dwarfish thought dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 522 pages
...wondered, in the reading, what was become of those glaring colours which amazed me in " Bussy D' AmboyS" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I...dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles ; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten... | |
 | Laughton Osborn - 1831
...tumid as they are, would furnish figures for' twenty writers of this figurative age. " But," he says, "when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star,...it was shooting ; a dwarfish thought dressed up in gigantick words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles ; the sense... | |
 | Laughton Osborn - 1831 - 408 pages
...tumid as they are, would furnish figures for twenty writers of this figurative age. " But," he says, " when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star,...it was shooting ; a dwarfish thought dressed up in gigantick words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles ; the sense... | |
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D'Ambois" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ; * nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting... 
