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
| James Boswell - 1835 - 590 páginas
...poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in winch the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the 1 The late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney, that he passed an evening with Dr. Young at Lord Melcombe's... | |
| 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... | |
| George Coles - 1836 - 424 páginas
...same may be said of Ezekiel's prophecy as was said of Young's Night Thoughts, — " It is a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to a Chinese plantation, the magnificence... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 páginas
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness the contexture of events planned by the Author, which...the poem, since it is left imperfect, no judgment and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness;... | |
| William Withering - 1837 - 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 flowers of every hue and of every odour." — Johnson. EDUCATION. CHAPONE ON THE MIND; DR. GREGORY'S LEGACY; AND PENNINGTON'S ADVICE TO HER DAUGHTERS.... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 688 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 páginas
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of ths sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained... | |
| Edward Young - 1839 - 300 páginas
...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.' It must be allowed, however, that many of these fine thoughts are overcast with the gloom of melancholy,... | |
| John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 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." SALES OF BLOOD STOCK, &o. On Tuesday, June 13th, at Viroflay, in France, the remainder of the late... | |
| Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1839 - 636 páginas
...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."— Johnson. lEUuratton. CHAPONE ON THE MIND; DR. GREGORY'S LEGACY, AND PENNINGTON'S ADVICE TO HER DAUGHTERS.... | |
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