 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...THOUGHTS,' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought,...not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...truth. In his ' Night Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness...poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhime but with disadno man possessed a stronger memory. He frequently attended Parliament, and the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 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 - 1810 - 408 pages
...turgid. In his " Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...is one of the few poems in which blank verse could npt'be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...turgid. In his " Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...turgid. . . t In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poem? in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion... | |
 | Edward Young - 1812 - 814 pages
...turgid. In his ' Night Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of even odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 pages
...turgid. In his "Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive Ballies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...Night-Thoughts ' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep -reflexions and striking allusions ; a wilderness of thought,...for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion cf the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination would have been compressed and restrained... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 284 pages
...Thoughts,' says a great critic, * he has exhibited avery wide display of original poetry, variegat-, ed with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hne and of every odour." It must be allowed, however, that many of these fine thoughts are overcast... | |
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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... 
