 | James Boswell - 1843
...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
...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
...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 - 484 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
...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... | |
 | DR. WARBURTON - 1856
...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 - 767 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
...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
...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 - 428 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,... | |
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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... 
