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... The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives - 45 ページ Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins 著 - 1787 全文表示 -
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