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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The drama to 1642 - Page 34
edited by - 1910 - 533 pages
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British Theatre, Volume 30

John Bell - 1791 - 270 pages
...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 supposed a fallen star,...it was shooting: a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gi~ gantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the sense...
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The Ancient British Drama ...

Walter Scott - 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...
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The Ancient British Drama ...

Walter Scott - 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...
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The Ancient British Drama ...

Walter Scott - 1810 - 630 pages
...cozened with a jell; ; nothing but в cold dull masp, which glittered no longer than it was shooting. Л dwarfish thought dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of ci pression, and gross hyperboles ; the sense of oue line expanded prodigioiuly into ten ; and, to...
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Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-L

David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 422 pages
...was become of " those glaring colours which " amazed me in Bussy d'Amlois " upon the theatre ; but when I " had taken up what I supposed a " fallen star,...dressed up in gigantic words, " repetition in abundance, loose" ness of expression, and gross " hyperboles ; the sense of one " line expanded prodigiously into...
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Biographia Dramatica: Names of the dramas: A-L

David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 418 pages
...was become of ' those glaring colours which ' amazed me in Bussy d'Amlois ' upon the theatre ; but when I ' had taken up what I supposed a ' fallen star,...dressed up in gigantic words, ' repetition in abundance, loose' ness of expression, and gross ' hyperboles; the sense of one' ' line expanded prodigiously into...
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Names of dramas: A-L

David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 444 pages
...was become of " those glaring colours which " amazed me in Bussy d'Amlois " upon the theatre ; but when I " had taken up what I supposed a " fallen star, I found J had been " cozened with a jelly : nothing " but a cold dull mass, which " glittered no longer than...
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The hymns of Homer; the Batrachomyomachia; and two original poetical hymns ...

Homerus - 1818 - 290 pages
...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 a fallen star,...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...
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Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis, Volume 2

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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Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis, Volume 2

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...
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