 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 - 13. oldalszerző: Edward Young - 1798 - 386 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 oldal
...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 the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 oldal
...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 the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 oldal
...Thought«," he has exhibited a »ery wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 406 oldal
...been under some malignant influence : he is always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour....rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 oldal
...turgid. In bis ' 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 the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 oldal
...turgid. In bis ' Night Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness...which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but w ith disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 oldal
...THOUGHTS,* he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought,...one of the few poems in which blank verse could not ' The late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney, that he passed' an evening with Dr. Young at Lord Melcombe's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 oldal
...work in which, says Johnson, " 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 every odour. In the whole, there is a magnificence, like that ascribed to Chinese Plantations; the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 oldal
...work in which, says Johnson, " 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 every odour. In the whole, there is a magnificence, like that ascribed to Chinese Plantations; the... | |
 | ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 oldal
...original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, hi which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every...rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by... | |
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