 | 1871 - 690 ページ
...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." Englishmen can afford to let the Ursus Major of their literature growl... | |
 | Richard Stuteley Cobbett - 1872 - 452 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 an ornament from an inconveaience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Bishop Warburton goes,... | |
 | 1876 - 618 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.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | 1876 - 612 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.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | 1876 - 608 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.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | 1877 - 814 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." Johnson's figure was large, robust, and unwieldy, from corpulency. IIappearance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 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." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 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." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 ページ
...exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men tiy to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
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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... 
