 Vauxhall is a composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill conceived and poorly executed, without any unity of design or propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assemblage of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses,...  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Pagina 125door Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - 1836 - 400 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 420 pagina’s
...for the performers that they cannot be heard diftinctly. — Vauxhall is a compotition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill conceived, and poorly executed, without any unity of defign, or propriety of difpofition It is an unnatural afiemblage of objects, fantaftically illuminated... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 560 pagina’s
...for the performers that they cannot be heard diflin£tly. — Vauxhall is a compofition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill conceived, and poorly executed, without any unity of defign, or propriety of difpofition. It is an unnatural aflemblage of objecls, fantaftically illuminated... | |
 | 1820 - 280 pagina’s
...well for the performers that they cannot be heard distinctly. Vauxball is a composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill conceived,...or propriety of ' disposition. It is an unnatural assembly of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses ; seemingly contrived to dazzle the... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 280 pagina’s
...well for the performers that they cannot be heard distinctly. Vauxhall is a composition of baubles, overcharged with - paltry ornaments, ill conceived,...executed ; without any unity of design, or propriety oi' disposition. It is an unnatural assembly of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pagina’s
...for the performers that they cannot be heard distinctly. Vauxhall***) is a composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill conceived,...propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assemblage of objecta, fantastically illuminated in broken masses; seemingly contrived to dazzle the eyes and divert... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pagina’s
...well for the performers that they cannot be heard distinctly. Vauxhall is a composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill conceived,...dazzle the eyes and divert the imagination of the vulgar?—here a wooden lion, there a stone statue : in one place a range of things like coffee-house... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pagina’s
...distinctly. Vauxhall is a composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill-conceived, and poorly executed, without any unity of design,...imagination of the vulgar. Here a wooden lion, there a stone etatue ; in one place, a range of things like coffee-house boxes covered a-top ; in another, a parcel... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pagina’s
...composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill concieved, and poorly executed ; vvithout any unity of design, or propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assembly of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses ; seemingly contrived to dazzle thé... | |
 | 1893 - 634 pagina’s
...familiar: — * Vauxhall is n composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, illconceived, and poorly executed, without any unity of design,...a range of things like coffee-house boxes covered at top ; in another, a parcel of alehouse benches ; in a third, a puppet-show representation of a tin... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1894 - 320 pagina’s
...poorly executed ; without any unity of design, or propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assembly of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses,...coffee-house boxes, covered a-top ; in another, a parcel of ale house benches ; in a third, a puppet-show representation of a tin cascade [this, it is to be feared,... | |
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