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The central figure of the huge hot-headed king, with his gusts of stormy good humour and peals of burly oaths which might have suited "Garagantua's mouth" and satisfied the requirements of Hotspur, appeals in a ruder fashion to the survival of the same sympathies on which Shakespeare with a finer instinct as evidently relied; the popular estimate of the bluff and brawny tyrant "who broke the bonds of Rome" was not yet that of later historians, though doubtless neither was it that of the writer or writers who would champion him to the utterance.
The fancy took so much, that they were afterwards collected into a pamphlet . Somebody said to Johnson, across the table, that he had not been in those characters. I should have been sorry to be left out. He then repeated what had been applied to him, 'I must borrow GARAGANTUA'S mouth .
Somebody said to Johnson, across the table, that he had not been in those characters. I should have been sorry to be left out. He then repeated what had been applied to him, 'I must borrow GARAGANTUA'S mouth. Miss Reynolds not perceiving at once the meaning of this, he was obliged to explain it to her, which had something of an aukward and ludicrous effect.
Johnson's sentences seem to be contorted, as his gigantic limbs used to twitch, by a kind of mechanical spasmodic action. The most obvious peculiarity is the tendency which he noticed himself, to "use too big words and too many of them." He had to explain to Miss Reynolds that the Shakesperian line, You must borrow me Garagantua's mouth,
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