 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 pages
...dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting : a dwarfish thought dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression,...expanded prodigiously into ten ; and, to sum up all, incorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense ; or at best a scantling... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 504 pages
...gross hyperbole ; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten ; and, to sum up all, incorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and...for life and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish." There is hyperbole in Chapman, and perhaps Dryden saw it the more readily and disliked it the more... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 504 pages
...dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperbole ; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten ; and, to sum up all, incorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense ; or, at best, a scantling... | |
 | George Chapman - 1905 - 394 pages
...dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting ; a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression,...a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense j or, at best, * scantling of wit, which lay gasping for life, and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1910 - 558 pages
...dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting ; a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression,...expanded prodigiously into ten; and to sum up all, incorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense; or, at best, a scantling... | |
 | John Dryden - 1911 - 402 pages
...than it was shooting; a dwarfish thought, dress'd up in gigantick words, repetition in aboundance, 45 looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the...which lay gasping for life and groaning beneath a heafi of rubbish. A famous modern poet us"d to sacrifice every year a 50 Statius to Virgil's Manes;... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1919 - 328 pages
...shapeless masses of bombast and bulky vacuity, with nothing better in them than most villainous " incorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and...true nonsense ; or at best a scantling of wit, which lies gasping for life and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish." The injustice of the criticism lies... | |
 | John Dryden - 1921 - 332 pages
...dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting; a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression,...life, and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish. A famous modem poet used to sacrifice every year a Statius to Virgil's Manes; and I have indignation enough... | |
 | 1921 - 144 pages
...presented in the reign of James I, and Dryden has spoken of this play in the following severe terms: "Uncorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false...for life, and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish." The first edition was printed in i607. REFERENCES: Greg, List of English Plays (i 900), p. i 9; Halliwell,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1908 - 1410 pages
...Chapman's play with the greatest severity. He found in it ' a dwarfish thought dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression,...line expanded prodigiously into ten ; and, to sum uj) all, incorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense.' Much of the writing... | |
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D'Amboys 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; a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words,... 
