 In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Stran 753avtor: James Boswell - 1817Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 strani
...powerful and amusing. He allowed the excellence of Young, and declared that the " Night Thoughts " was one of " the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." Thomson's poetry appeared to him to contain a real vein of genius, and he gave high praise to " The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 strani
...Thoughts ' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions ; a wilderness of thought, in which...poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhime but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are not to be regarded, the power... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 strani
...Thoughts ' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions: a wilderness of thought, in which...power is in the whole; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 strani
...Thoughts ' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which...with disadvantage." And afterwards, "Particular lines 1 The late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney, that he passed an evening with Dr. Young at' Lord Melcombe's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 strani
...Thoughts ' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which...but with disadvantage." And afterwards, "Particular hues 1 The late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney, that he passed an evening with Dr. Young at Lord... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 strani
...Thoughts/ he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which...power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 strani
...Thoughts " he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 strani
...and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhime but with disadvantage'.' And afterwards, ' Particular...power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation', the magnificence of vast extent and endless... | |
 | James Boswell - 1893 - 708 strani
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 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 strani
...a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions—a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed... | |
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