| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...and reftrained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactnefs, but copioufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power...afcribed to Chinefe Plantation, the magnificence of vail extent and endlefs diverfity. His laft poem was the Refignation ; in which he made, as he was... | |
| SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...•.and reftrained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactnefs, but copioufnefs; particular lines are not to be regarded.; the power...the whole there is a magnificence like that afcribed toChinefe Plantation, the magnificence -of vaft extent and endlefs diverfity. ' 4 His laft poem was... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 pages
...comprefled' and reftrained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exadtnefs, but copioufhefs; particular lines are not to be regarded; the power...the whole there is a magnificence like that afcribed toChinefe Plantation, the magnificence of vaft.extent and endlefs diverfity. His lafi poem was the... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pages
...reftrarned •by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this" work is not exaflnefs, but coptoufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole, and in the whele there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinefe Plantation, the magnificence of vaft extent... | |
| Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...and retrained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this wock is not exailnefs, .but copioufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole, and in. the whele there is a magnificence like that .afctibed te Chinefe Plantation, the magnificence of vail extent... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...reftrained by confinement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exaftnefs but copioufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power...Chinefe plantation, the magnificence of vaft extent and cndlefs diverlity. His Inll poem was the Refignation ; in xvhich he made, us he was accuftomcd, an... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...and reftrained by confmement to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not exactnefs but copioufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power...whole there is a magnificence like that afcribed to Chinefc plantation, the magnificence of vait extent and endlefs diverfity. His laft poem was the Re/ignation;... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...and reftrained by regard to rhyme. The excellence of this work is not cxaftnefs, but copioufnefs ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power...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... | |
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