 | Christopher Christie - 2000 - 374 ページ
...decried this feature: '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...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage'. Dr Johnson is heing a little unfair on Pope, who right from the start... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - 2000 - 348 ページ
...In his Life of Pope, for example, he observes of Pope's grotto with a modicum of contempt, "as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." 1 1 The biographer's studied disavowal, his reduction to "vanity," in... | |
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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... 
