 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 - 1910 - 548 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 strani
...whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful.' Of Young's Night Thoughts he says : ' This is one of the few poems in which blank verse...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 - 1922 - 538 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...lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the 1 The late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney, that he passed an evening with Dr. Young at Lord Melcombe's... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 766 strani
...Young's description of night to either Shakespeare's or Dryden's, agreed that the Night Thoughts was " one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." 2 Burke committed many passages of it to memory,8 and even the fastidious Horace Walpole thought that... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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...in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme butwith disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 strani
...and restrained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1931 - 1260 strani
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 | James Boswell - 1934 - 586 strani
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 | James Boswell - 1934 - 1434 strani
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