 | English poets - 1790 - 312 ページ
...rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exa&nefs but copioufnefs ; particular lirus are VOL. VI. G not not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole, and...accuftomed, an experiment of a new mode of writing, and fuccceded better than in his " Ocean" or his " Merchant." It was very falfely reprefented as a proof... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 ページ
...poems in which blank verfe could not be changed for rhime but with difadvantare." And afterwards, " Particular lines are not to be regarded; the power is in the whokj and in the whole there is a magnificence like that afcribed to Chinefe plantation, the magnificence... | |
 | 1793 - 738 ページ
...have been comprcfled and reftrained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not cxaftnefs, but copioufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded...whole there is a magnificence like that afcribed to a Chinefe plantation, the magnificence of vail extent and endlefs diverlity. " His lall poem was the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 ページ
...have been comprefled and reArained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this \vork is not exa&nefs but copioufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded...-whole there is a magnificence like that afcribed ' to a Chinefe plantation, the magnificence of vaft extent, and endlefs diverfity." " Of " Refignation,''... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 ページ
...wildernefs of thought, in which the ** fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and ** every odour. In the whole, there is a magnificence, " like that afcribed to Chinefe Plantations; the mag*•* nificence of vaft extent, and endlefs diverfity." This eloquent eulogium... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 ページ
...wildernefs of thought, in which the " fertility of fancy fcatters flowers of every hue and " every odour. In the whole, there is a magnificence, " like that afcribed to Chinefe Plantations ; the mag" nificence of vaft extent, and endlefs diverfity." This eloquent eulogium makes... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 ページ
...restrained by " confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this " work is not exactness, but copiousness: particular " lines are not to be regarded; the power...and in the whole there is a magnificence " like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the mag" nificence of vast extent and endless diversity." So far Dr.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 ページ
...is one of the few poems ia which blank verfe could not be changed for rhime but with difadvantage. Particular lines are not to be regarded, the power is in the whole, and in the whole there is a magnifieence like that aferibed to Chinefe plantation, the magnificence of vaft extent and endlefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 340 ページ
...been comprefled and reftrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exatttiefs but copioufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded...the whole there is a magnificence like that afcribed afcribed to Chinefe plantation, the magnificence of vaft extent and endlefs diverfity. His laft poem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 ページ
...restrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactness but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded; the power...and in the whole there is a magnificence . like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity. His last poem... | |
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The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and... 
