 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 ページ
...excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their X defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious 38 JOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE.... | |
 | East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society - 1901 - 470 ページ
...was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, lie extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." And in W. Roscoe's life of Pope, vol. i, p. 220 :— " The property... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 ページ
...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...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage 2. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative that... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 ページ
...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...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 422 ページ
...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...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Pope was quite as proud of his gardening operations as he was of his... | |
 | 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 vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." POPE'S VILLA, TWICKENHAM (From Westalts "Picturesque Tour of the River... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1913 - 370 ページ
...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...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." After all, therefore, there was some excuse for Pope's folly, but what... | |
 | 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 vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." This was the poet's great delight, and in praise of which he has written... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 ページ
...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...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they... | |
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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... 
