 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
 | English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...allusions; a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue, »nJ 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... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 pages
...when this way next you tread, Be not surprised should Death himself be dead. tility 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." — Johnson's Lives of the British Poets.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 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 rhime but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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 - 1884 - 626 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 - 1887 - 470 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 rhime but with disadvantage 6.' And afterwards, ' Particular lines are... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...deep reflections and striking allusion a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scattc flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of tl few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhir but with disadvantage 6.' And afterwards,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 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 - 1889 - 460 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 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... | |
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