 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 ページ
...solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Pope was quite as proud of his gardening operations as he was of his poetry, though he affected to despise the... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1909 - 666 ページ
...solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious . and speculative, that they are proud of trifles, and... | |
 | James Edmund Vincent - 1909 - 392 ページ
...these times. It was necessary as an entrance to Pope's Thames-side garden. To quote Dr. Johnson, " he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." POPE'S VILLA, TWICKENHAM (From Westalts "Picturesque Tour of the River Thames'") TWICKENHAM (from \\~estalts... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1913 - 370 ページ
...solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." After all, therefore, there was some excuse for Pope's folly, but what can be said for that of the... | |
 | Gordon S. Maxwell - 1924 - 350 ページ
...passage, which he elaborated into a grotto, and of which Dr. Johnson somewhat ponderously remarked : "He extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." This was the poet's great delight, and in praise of which he has written in both prose and verse ;... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 ページ
...solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden; and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud of trifles, and... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 ページ
...grotto? The first possibility: "Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience." This suggestion is followed by a series of speculations generated by the possible implications of the... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 ページ
...grotto is made clear by Johnson: "Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage" (LP 135; italics mine). At once an ornament and an inconvenience, the grotto simultaneously exemplifies... | |
 | Madeleine Kahn - 1991 - 188 ページ
...London road on his estate, Twickenham—and he makes this simultaneously astute and arch pronouncement: "As some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience [that of having to go under the London road] and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 ページ
...solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to the garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.173 Johnson blinds himself to Pope's merging of geological verisimilitude with a literary tradition... | |
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A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted... 
