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
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 590 strani
...poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in winch the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the 1 The late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney, that he passed an evening with Dr. Young at Lord Melcombe's... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 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... | |
| George Coles - 1836 - 406 strani
...Perhaps the same may be said of Ezekiel's prophecy as was said of Young's Night Thoughts, — " It is a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of...fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to a Chinese plantation, the magnificence... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 strani
...Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and o, an independent enthusiast. Of the contexture of...the poem, since it is left imperfect, no judgment The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed... | |
| William Withering - 1837 - 472 strani
...Price 2s. 6d. " Exhibits 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." — Johnson. EDUCATION. CHAPONE ON THE MIND; DR. GREGORY'S LEGACY; AND PENNINGTON'S ADVICE TO HER DAUGHTERS.... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 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 the imagination, would have been... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 692 strani
...restrained by confinement 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 plantations, the magnificence of vast extent, and endless... | |
| John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 strani
...language of a great critic) a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions — a wilderness of thought, in...scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour." SALES OF BLOOD STOCK, &o. On Tuesday, June 13th, at Viroflay, in France, the remainder of the late... | |
| Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1839 - 636 strani
...Price 2s. 0d. 'Exhibits 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."— Johnson. lEUuratton. CHAPONE ON THE MIND; DR. GREGORY'S LEGACY, AND PENNINGTON'S ADVICE TO HER DAUGHTERS.... | |
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