 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...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 407edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his "Nb;ht Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...few poems in which blank verse could not be changed fur rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his 'Night Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odonr. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...Thoughts, of which Dr. Johnson gives the following just and graphic character: " The author has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections, and striking allusions ; a wildness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and order. The excellence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his "Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...one of the few poems in which blank verse could not he changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...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 Melcoiube's... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - Rome - 1844 - 642 pages
...Vignette. Royal 39mo. "Exhibits a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reffections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in...of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every colour." — Johnton. HUIJ-TIN"GTON-S (Mns. OF BOSTON) MEMOIRS. Consisting of Extracts from her Journals... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...from disappointed ambition rather than from superior sentiments. It is thought, however, to exhibit a wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions — a wildness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odor.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his "Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in whicn blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...virtuous," as applied by our author. Of the poem itself, Dr. Johnson has justly said it exhibits " a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." ' It is unnecessary to enter, here, into any criticism of his other poems,... | |
 | English poets - 1847 - 144 pages
...display of original poetry, with deep reflections, and striking allusions, — a wilderness of thoughts in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour." Though himself so partial to rhyme, the Doctor says that here blank verse is properly used ; and he... | |
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