 | Edward Young - 1839 - 324 pages
...hit Night Thoughts,' says a great critic, ' 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 fancj scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour.' It must be allowed, however, that many of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...last is only turgid. In his "Nb;ht Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, s is narrow, and to which 1 know not how love could...appended. There would however have been no want either of fur rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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,...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 pages
...wide 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 order. The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness; particular lines are not to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...last is only turgid. In his "Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, , and is, incapable of being elected a member to eerve he changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...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 pages
...Vignette. Royal 39mo. "Exhibits a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reffections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in...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 pages
...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 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,...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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...the poem itself, Dr. Johnson has justly said it exhibits " a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions,...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." ' It is unnecessary to enter, here, into any criticism of his other poems, and his dramatic productions.... | |
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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... 
