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 - 1826 - 446 páginas
...poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in Jwhich the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. Tbis is one of the few poems in which blank verse could nO*, be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - 576 páginas
...widi display of original poetrv, variegated will deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue am of every odour. This is one of the few poems ш which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - 622 páginas
...wide display of original poetrv, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness ean. They say, he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he i an< of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhvme... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1829 - 392 páginas
...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." In 1730 he was presented to the living of Welwyn, in. Hertfordshire. He died there in 1765. Z. Zimmerman,... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 592 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 584 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 472 páginas
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of the imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 456 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 páginas
...must condescend to rhyme." In his critique on the " Night Thoughts," he makes a similar concession. " This is one of the few poems in which blank verse...sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme." * Cowper, it will be remembered, questions the * Young's testimony... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 446 páginas
...must condescend to rhyme." In his critique on the " Night Thoughts," he makes a similar concession. " This is one of the few poems in which blank verse...sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme." * Cowper, it will be remembered, questions the * Young's testimony... | |
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