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
| Edward Young - 1839 - 300 strani
...critic, * 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.' It must be allowed, however, that many of these fine thoughts are overcast with the gloom of melancholy,... | |
| Hannah More - 1839 - 570 strani
...6d. 'Exhihits a very wide display of original poetry, rartegated wilh drop refleetions and stnking allusions, a wilderness of thought, In which the fertility...scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour."— Juknian, limuation. CHAPONE ON THE MIND; DR. GREGORY'S LEGACY, AND PENNINGTON'S ADVICE TO HER DAUGHTERS.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 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...few poems in which blank verse could not be changed fur rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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...of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odonr. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 strani
...scatters flowers of every hue and order. 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 a Chinese plantation : the magnificence of vast extent and endless... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 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...one of the few poems in which blank verse could not he changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 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 Melcoiube's... | |
| Adam Ferguson - 1844 - 642 strani
...Royal 39mo. "Exhibits a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reffections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which...of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every colour." — Johnton. HUIJ-TIN"GTON-S (Mns. OF BOSTON) MEMOIRS. Consisting of Extracts from her Journals... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 strani
...display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions — a wildness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odor. He was too fond of antithesis, and often too turgid in his style : yet he paints, with the most... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 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...and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in whicn blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments,... | |
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