 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...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Sida 753efter James Boswell - 1817Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 410 sidor
...Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which...is one of the few poems in which blank verse could notjbe changed for rhyme !<ut with disadvantage. JThe wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 sidor
...Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which...is one of the few poems in which blank verse could uot be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 sidor
...Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which...This is one of the few poems in which blank verse conld not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 sidor
...Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which...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 - 1824 - 482 sidor
...THOUGHTS,' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which...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 - 1825 - 682 sidor
...Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which...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 - 1825 - 524 sidor
...Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which...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, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 sidor
...Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. Particular lines are not to be regarded : the power is in the whole, and in the whole there is a magnificence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 sidor
...Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 sidor
...thought, in which the fertility of faucy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This ia one of the few poems in which blank verse ' could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. f'l'hr wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been... | |
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