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" 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, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. "
Lives - Página 524
editado por - 1800
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen142

1876 - 608 páginas
...described by Johnson : ' A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house....
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen142

1876 - 612 páginas
...described by Johnson : ' A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house....
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The Great and Eccentric Characters of the World, Their Lives and Their Deeds ...

1877 - 814 páginas
...the following sentence, from his Life of Pope, at whom he has been sneering for building a grotto: "A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." Johnson's figure was large, robust, and unwieldy, from corpulency. IIappearance...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 páginas
...dignified it with the title of a grotto ; a place of silence and retreat, from •which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud...
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Sketches of eminent statesmen and writers, with other essays, Tema 290,Volumen2

Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 páginas
...described by Johnson : " A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house....
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Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers: With Other Essays, Volumen2

Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 páginas
...described by Johnson : " A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house....
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Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers: With Other Essays, Volumen2

Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 páginas
...described by Johnson : " A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men tiy to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced...
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The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life ...

Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 páginas
...dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may / be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that / \ they...
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Village London: The Story of Greater London, Volumen1

Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 páginas
...Johnson. "A grotto," remarks Dr. Johnson, "is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who had more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun,...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The best description of Pope's grotto, and of the poet's satisfaction and pleasure...
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English Letters and Letterwriters of the Eighteenth Century: With ...

Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 páginas
...pleasure nf an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun : but Pone's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden...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...
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