 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
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 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...which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme, with advantage. The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 2006 - 417 strani
...Johnson is divided on the question. About Young's wildly popular Night Thoughts, he suggests that its "wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy...scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour" makes it "one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 636 strani
...Thoughts,' that they 'exhibit a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which...fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour ' ; of the ' Last Day,' that ' it has an equability and propriety which he afterwards either never... | |
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