 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
 | 1867 - 556 strani
...author, " he ha exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue, »nJ of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme,... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 strani
...Death's wife ; when this way next you tread, Be not surprised should Death himself be dead. tility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." — Johnson's Lives of the British Poets. ON MISERS. 1. HERE crumbling lies beneath this mould, A man... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 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 - 1884 - 626 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 strani
...Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original yoetry, 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... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 strani
...display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions," and that it was " one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." 86 Jloctoi* $0ljtts0tt. WORKS OF FICTION. CPEAKING of the sameness in writers of novels he said, "There... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 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 6.' And afterwards, ' Particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 strani
...His is one of the works in which blank verse seems properly used.' Of Young's Night Thoughts .-—' This is one of the few poems in which blank verse...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.' Ib. p. 460. Of Milton himself, he writes :—' Whatever be the advantages of rhyme, I cannot prevail... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 strani
...His is one of the works in which blank verse seems properly used.' Of Young's Night Thoughts :—' This is one of the few poems in which blank verse...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.' Ib. p. 460. Of Milton himself, he writes: — 'Whatever be the advantages of rhyme, I cannot prevail... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 strani
...powerful and amusing. He allowed the excellence of Young, and declared that the " Night Thoughts " was one of " the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." Thomson's poetry appeared to him to contain a real vein of genius, and he gave high praise to " The... | |
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