Bombastic, sophomoric, turgid, tumid, grandiose, grandiloquent, magniloquent.

Wordsworththough against this passage is written "unjust," a concession not much sooner made than withdrawn,is dubbed an idiot, who Both by precept and example shows, That prose is verse and verse is only prose; and Coleridge, a baby, To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear.

So easy is his style in these Lives, that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when giving an account of the approach of Waller's mortal disease, he says, 'he found his legs grow tumid;' by using the expression his legs swelled, he would have avoided this; and there would have been no impropriety in its being followed by the interesting question to his physician, 'What that swelling meant?'

My nights are restless, my breath is difficult, and my lower parts continue tumid.

Amongst other symptoms, there is the picking of the nose and lips, offensive breath, occasional vomiting, deranged bowels, pain in the head and belly, with a tumid and swollen condition of the latter, a short dry cough, wasting of the flesh, etc.; symptoms continually attendant upon the disorder now under consideration.

Johnson has observed, that if blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose.

The three African eclogues have a tumid grandeur.

In seeking the great, he has too often found the tumid; seeking the original, he has fallen upon the strange, and also on bad taste.

Mr. Moxon seems to belike most sonneteersa man of amiable disposition, and to have an earas he certainly has a memoryfor poetry; andif he had not been an old handwe should not have presumed to say that he is incapable of anything better than this tumid commonplace.

His versification flowed so easily, as to lessen the bad effects of rhyme in dialogue; and, at the same time, abounded with such splendid and sonorous passages, as, in the mouth of a Betterton, awed into silence even those critics, who could distinguish that the tumid and unnatural was sometimes substituted for the heroic and sublime.

In Antony, the first class of attributes are discarded: he has none of that tumid and outrageous dignity which characterised the heroes of the rhyming plays, and in its stead is gifted with even more than an usual share of devoted attachment to his mistress.

But I think his diction not distinguishable from that of others: the most tumid speech in the play is that which Cæsar makes to Octavia.

The tumid cheeks assumed a sicklier white, and the small, offensive eyes sparkled with a fiercer fury, as the son replied: "Very well, sir.

The tumid cant of Nicholas is grotesque enough to be more amusing than the tract-and-water style of Yate and Barret Marshall, or the childishness of Richard Taylor.