 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 ページ
...than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as gome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a his critics were, their writings are lost; and the names which are preserved, are preserved in the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 ページ
...excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden; and ns some men try to be prond of their defect", he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." 'I In- — and a good deal more of the same tone follows — is surely... | |
 | James Thorne - 1847 - 480 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. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and reflective" — continues... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 442 ページ
...exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrave ••) 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." — C. (2) Dr. James Foster was an eminent preacher among the dissenters;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 ページ
...tho sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to bo proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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. It may be frequently remarked, of the studious and speculative, that... | |
 | 1860 - 782 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. His... | |
 | 1860 - 894 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." Johnson also understood the art of condensing a long train of reasoning... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
