 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 552 ページ
...than exclude the sun : but Pone's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a ynMo whero necessity enforced a jHiasaj/tf." 3 Formerly in possession of Mr. HG Hnhn. Mr. Currut.herH... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 552 ページ
...: but Pope's <>xc;ivation was requisite aa an entrance to his garden ; and, as someiu.cn try to lie proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity pioductjd a \fiutlt> where necessity enforced a ^«a««j/c." A letter to Edward Blount (June, 1725),... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889
...to exclude the sun ; Put 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." — 0. ; Dr. James Foster was an eminent preacher among the dissenters... | |
 | 1895
...there is an admirably sententious passage somewhere or other in the works of Dr. Johnson : "As some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." lint to return to present times, the ancient chronicler is still altogether... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1896 - 224 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. After all, therefore, there was some excuse for Pope's folly, but what... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1896 - 104 ページ
...formerly been divided from it by a road, was made in the following year. " Pope," says Dr. Johnson, " extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity forced a passage." There is an eloquent description of this grotto in a letter from Pope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 200 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 200 ページ
...excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their X defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious 38 JOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE.... | |
 | East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society - 1901
...was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, lie extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." And in W. Roscoe's life of Pope, vol. i, p. 220 :— " The property... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905
...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 2. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative that... | |
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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... 
