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 - Página xipor Edward Young - 1802 - 361 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 páginas
...wide display of original yoetry, 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 - 1884 - 626 páginas
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions: a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...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... | |
| James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 páginas
...display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions," and that it was " one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." 86 Jloctoi* $0ljtts0tt. WORKS OF FICTION. CPEAKING of the sameness in writers of novels he said, "There... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 470 páginas
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections 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 6.' And afterwards, ' Particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 466 páginas
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections 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 6 .' And afterwards,' Particular lines are not to be regarded; the power... | |
| Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 páginas
...powerful and amusing. He allowed the excellence of Young, and declared that the " Night Thoughts " was one of " the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." Thomson's poetry appeared to him to contain a real vein of genius, and he gave high praise to " The... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 652 páginas
...deep reflections and striking allusion a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scattc flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of tl few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhir but with disadvantage 6.' And afterwards,... | |
| James Boswell - 1888 - 544 páginas
...display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 570 páginas
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions: a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters..."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... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 460 páginas
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hne and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for... | |
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