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
| English poets - 1847 - 144 strani
...display of original poetry, with deep reflections, and striking allusions, — a wilderness of thoughts in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour." Though himself so partial to rhyme, the Doctor says that here blank verse is properly used ; and he... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1851 - 322 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...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of everv odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 790 strani
...astonishing, may write blank verse : but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme." 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 R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1851 - 420 strani
...Thoughts. Here, indeed, he confesses there is " original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hne and every odor." The style and seatimeat of the Night Thoughts are peculiarly favorable to the... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 strani
...said, " They exhibited a very wide display of original poetry 'variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, — a wilderness of thought, in...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and colour. Their excellence is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 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 - 1854 - 344 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... | |
| Edward Young - 1854 - 692 strani
...in preference to blank verse. In his " Life of Young," speaking of his " Night Thoughts," he says, " 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... | |
| Isaac Weston - 1855 - 392 strani
..."Imagination," remarks Dr. Johnson, "is to place things in such views as they are not commonly seen in — a wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odor." Dr. Payson was conversable and sufficiently familiar on all suitable subjects and occasions... | |
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