| James Boswell - 1831 - 592 ページ
...to 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." This ( — and a good deal more of the same tone follows — ) is surely... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 584 ページ
...to exelude 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." This (—and a good deal more of the same tone follows—) is surely... | |
| 1833 - 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. It may frequently be remarked, of the studious and speculative, that... | |
| A. Walton - 1834 - 158 ページ
...of the road, be adorned it with fossile bodies and dignified it with the title of a Grotto. 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 buried in the parish church of Twickenham, to whose memory... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 ページ
...the sun; hut Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to he Of prodigies, and portents seen in air, Of fires...plagues, and stars with hlazing hair, Of turns of fo necessity enforced a passage. It may he frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 ページ
...than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some ho wrote verses too." His poems consist of elegies, odes, and ballads, inconvenienco, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 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... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1839 - 708 ページ
...passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary 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." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after... | |
| 1839 - 742 ページ
...passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary ns 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." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1840 - 426 ページ
...passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary 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." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after... | |
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