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... March 19, 1776-Dec. 13, 1784 - Page 922by James Boswell - 1907Full view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness but copiousness ; particular lines are not to he regarded ; the power is in the whole, and in the whole...magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity. His last poem was the " Resignation ;" in which he made, as he was accustomed, an experiment of a new... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed... | |
| Edward Young - 1805 - 238 pages
...reflections and striking allusions; a wikler" ness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scat" ters flowers of every hue, and of every odour. This " is one of the few poems in which blank verse could u not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage. " The wild diffusion of the sentiments and the digressive... | |
| Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue, and of every odor. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse...could not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and...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 - 1807 - 238 pages
...poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fan.cy scatters flowers of every hue...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power...magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity. His tragedies, not making part of the collection, I had forgotten, till Mr. Steevens recalled them... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...•variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in •vrhich the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and...not be changed for rhyme but •with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and...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... | |
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