 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 pages
...remarks ; " In his Night Thoughts, he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness...diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of the imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 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...rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of ths sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1839 - 636 pages
...Death, and Immortality. Price 2s. 0d. 'Exhibits a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour."— Johnson. lEUuratton. CHAPONE ON THE MIND; DR. GREGORY'S LEGACY, AND PENNINGTON'S ADVICE TO HER DAUGHTERS.... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 pages
...exhibited (we quote the language of a great critic) a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions — a...scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour." SALES OF BLOOD STOCK, &o. On Tuesday, June 13th, at Viroflay, in France, the remainder of the late... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 300 pages
...Thoughts,' says a great critic, * he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour.' It must be allowed, however, that many of these fine thoughts are overcast with the gloom of melancholy,... | |
 | Hannah More - 1839 - 570 pages
...6d. 'Exhihits a very wide display of original poetry, rartegated wilh drop refleetions and stnking allusions, a wilderness of thought, In which the fertility...scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour."— Juknian, limuation. CHAPONE ON THE MIND; DR. GREGORY'S LEGACY, AND PENNINGTON'S ADVICE TO HER DAUGHTERS.... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 324 pages
...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
...turgid. In his "Nb;ht Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...few poems in which blank verse could not be changed fur rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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...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... | |
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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... 
