 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...last is only turgid. In bis ' Night Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions,...which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but w ith disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 pages
...THOUGHTS,* he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought,...one of the few poems in which blank verse could not ' The late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney, that he passed' an evening with Dr. Young at Lord Melcombe's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...Thoughts, a work in which, says Johnson, " he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions,...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and every odour. In the whole, there is a magnificence, like that ascribed to Chinese Plantations; the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...Thoughts, a work in which, says Johnson, " he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions,...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and every odour. In the whole, there is a magnificence, like that ascribed to Chinese Plantations; the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 410 pages
...is only turgid. In his '--itighit Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions,...is one of the few poems in which blank verse could notjbe changed for rhyme !<ut with disadvantage. JThe wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 pages
...last is only turgid. In his " Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions,...is one of the few poems in which blank verse could uot be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 pages
...Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought,...This is one of the few poems in which blank verse conld not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 482 pages
...THOUGHTS,' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...resistless truth. In his ' Night Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions;...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. Particular lines are not to be regarded : the power is in the whole, and in the whole there is a magnificence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 pages
...last is only turgid. In his " Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions,...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with... | |
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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... 
