 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
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...reflection 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 few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 pages
...reflection 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 few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters is called the action of the poem, since it is left imperfect, no judgment verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1838 - 688 pages
...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 few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...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 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
...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 few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." ' It is unnecessary to enter, here, into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...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 few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1859 - 472 pages
...allusions : a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hne and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...reflections and striking aJlosions; a wilderness of thought, in which tbe fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue, and of every odour. This is one of the few poem* in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion... | |
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