 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...accumulations of ungraceful ornaments; they strike, rather than please; the images are magnified by affection; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind...and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and i-> tall by walking on tiptoe." One can understand exactly why Johnson says this without altogether... | |
 | Philip W. Martin - 1982 - 268 страници
...Johnson's criticisms of Gray can be applied to Childe Harold IV with equal force: 'These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments;...of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . . . His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.'22... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 страници
...imagery, Johnson finally and famously pronounced with reference to both poems: These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments:...there is too little appearance of ease and nature. To say that he has no beauties would be unjust: a man like him, of great learning and great industry,... | |
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These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments, they strike rather than please; the images are magnified by affectation; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence.... 
