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" 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... "
Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality - Page xi
by Edward Young - 1802 - 361 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness . There would however have been no want either of fur rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...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 odonr. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage....
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Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...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 of this work is not exactness, but copiousness; particular lines are not to be...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness inconvenience of Milton's design is, that, it requires...the agency of spirits. He saw that immateriality sup he changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Including A Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 2

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...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...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. He was too fond of antithesis, and often too turgid in his style : yet he paints, with the most...
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The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic

Adam Ferguson - 1844 - 640 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reffections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility 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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...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,...
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The seasons, ed. with notes by A.T. Thomson

James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters...could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." ' It is unnecessary to enter, here, into any criticism of his other poems, and his dramatic productions....
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Lectures on the English Poets

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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