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 one of... Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality - Page xiby Edward Young - 1802 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...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
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness;... | |
| James Boswell - 1824 - 482 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...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 - 1825 - 682 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness;... | |
| Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...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 - 520 pages
...thought, in which the fertility of faucy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This ia one of the few poems in which blank verse ' could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. f'l'hr wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 pages
...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 every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 444 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...could 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 whole... | |
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