 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 one...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 115edited by - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...reflections and ftriking allufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one...changed for rhyme but with difadvantage. The wild diffufion of the fentiments, and the the digreffive failles of imagination, would have been comprefled... | |
 | SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...refledtions and ftriking allufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one...changed for rhyme but with difadvantage. ' The wild diffufion of the fentimentsy and the digreffive fallies of imagination, would have been compreflcd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...reflections and linking allufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one...changed for rhyme but with difadvantage. The wild diffufion of the fentiments, and the digreflive fallles of imagination, would have been comprefled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 294 pages
...reflections and ftriking allufions, a vvildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy Scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one...blank verfe could not be changed for rhyme but with difadvan— tage. The wild difFufion of the fentiments, and the digrefllve fallies of imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...reflections and finking allufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verie could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffufion of the fentiments, and... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...reflections and ftriking allufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one...blank verfe could not be changed for rhyme but with .disadvantage. The wild diffufion of the fentimcnts, and the digref•£ve failles of imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 504 pages
...reflections and ftrikingallufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one...not be changed for rhyme but with difadvantage. The v/ild diffufion of the fentiments, and the digreffive Tallies of imagination, would have been comprefled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...reflections and ftriking allufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one...changed for rhyme but with difadvantage. The wild diffufion of the fentiments, and the digreffive fallies of imagination, would have been comprefled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...reflections and ftriking allufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one...changed for rhyme but with difadvantage. The wild diffufion of the fentiments, and the digreffivc fallies of imagination, would have been comprefled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...refledlions and ftriking allufions, a wildernefs of thought, in which the fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verfc could not be changed for rhyme but with difadvantage. The wild diffufion of the fcntiments, and... | |
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