This
is an approximation to what might be called mental bombast,
as distinguished from verbal: for, as in the latter there is a
disproportion of the expressions to the so in this there is a
disproportion of thought to the circumstance and occasion.
is an approximation to what might be called mental bombast,
as distinguished from verbal: for, as in the latter there is a
disproportion of the expressions to the so in this there is a
disproportion of thought to the circumstance and occasion.
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy
