 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 - 1826 - 444 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...power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantations, the magnificence of vast extent and endless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 strani
...restrained by confintment 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 - 1827 - 622 strani
...THOUGHTS,' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetrv, variegated with deep reflection and ger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say, he...not afraid of the strictest examination, though he i an< of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhvme... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 strani
...THOUGHTS,' he has exhibited a very widi display of original poetrv, variegated will deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which...the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue am of every odour. This is one of the few poems ш which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1829 - 392 strani
...Johnson, " he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions ; a wilderness of thought, in which...scatters flowers of every hue, and of every odour." In 1730 he was presented to the living of Welwyn, in. Hertfordshire. He died there in 1765. Z. Zimmerman,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 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 - 1831 - 592 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 - 1835 - 456 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 446 strani
...must condescend to rhyme." In his critique on the " Night Thoughts," he makes a similar concession. " 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 452 strani
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