 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 few...  Works: Life and Letters - Page 7by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...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...but " with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sen" timents, and the digressive sallies of imagination, " would have been compressed and , restrained... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse coold not be changed for rhytne but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments,...compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded;... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 412 pages
...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...compressed and restrained by confinement " to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, " but copiousness : particular lines are not to be regarded... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...derness 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...sallies of imagination, " would have been compressed arid restrained by confinement " to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, "but copiousness:... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...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...sallies of imagination, " would have been compressed arid restrained by confinement " to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, " but copiousness... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...flovrefs of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the fevfr poems in which blank verse couVd not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of rh< sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, wonld have been compressed and restrained... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue, and of every odor. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse...compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness, butcopiousness : the particular linrs are not to be regarded;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...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...imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness but copiousness; particular lines are... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 238 pages
...ness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scat" ters flowers of every hue, and of every odour. This " is one of the few poems in which blank verse could u not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage. " The wild diffusion of the sentiments and the digressive... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...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...not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the... | |
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