 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 642 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... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1913 - 343 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... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 271 ページ
...The first possibility: "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 inconvenience." This suggestion is followed by a series of speculations generated by the possible implications of the... | |
 | Kristina Straub
...made clear by Johnson: "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" (LP 135; italics mine). At once an ornament and an inconvenience, the... | |
 | Madeleine Kahn - 1991 - 172 ページ
...on his estate, Twickenham—and he makes this simultaneously astute and arch pronouncement: "As some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience [that of having to go under the London road] and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced... | |
 | Christopher Christie - 2000 - 333 ページ
...decried this feature: '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'. Dr Johnson is heing a little unfair on Pope, who right from the start... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - 2000 - 332 ページ
...In his Life of Pope, for example, he observes of Pope's grotto with a modicum of contempt, "as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." 1 1 The biographer's studied disavowal, his reduction to "vanity," in... | |
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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... 
