 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
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 strani
...Thoughts,' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and graph : — " Their numbers arc, magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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 - 1901 - 372 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 - 1852 - 344 strani
...Thoughts,' he has exhibited a vjry wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which...few poems in which blank verse could not be changed forrhyme but with disad vantage. " And afterwards, " Particular lines are not to be regarded ; the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 strani
...he has exhibited a very wide dis- 160 play of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which...fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour 4. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1952 - 490 strani
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 | James Boswell - 1907 - 730 strani
...storm of rain and wind. " No, Sir, (replied the Doctor it is a very fine night. THE LORD is abroad." " Particular lines are not to be regarded ; the 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 - 1907 - 172 strani
...properly used in Thomson's ' Seasons' and Young's' Night Thoughts.' Of the latter work he says : ' This is one of the few poems in which blank verse...not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage.' (Life of Young; Lives of the I'oets, ed. 1794, iv. 392.) Johnson devotes four papers of the ' Rambler'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 650 strani
...Thoughts,' that they 'exhibit a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which...fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour ' ; of the ' Last Day,' that ' it has an equability and propriety which he afterwards either never... | |
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