 | 1860 - 782 páginas
...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...produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." Johnson's figure was large, robust, and unwieldy, from corpulency. His appearance was rendered strange... | |
 | 1871 - 690 páginas
...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...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Englishmen can afford to let the Ursus Major of their literature growl at Pope's vanity, when they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 páginas
...fashionable, easily continues its reputation, because every one is ashamed of not partaking it. OF IT may be frequently remarked of the studious and...and childish : whether it be that men, conscious of great reputation, think themselves above the reach of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent... | |
 | 1876 - 612 páginas
...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...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house. The entrance at... | |
 | 1876 - 608 páginas
...; 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...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house. The entrance at... | |
 | 1876 - 618 páginas
...; 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...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house. The entrance at... | |
 | 1877 - 814 páginas
...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...produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." Johnson's figure was large, robust, and unwieldy, from corpulency. IIappearance was rendered strange... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 páginas
...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...and childish ; whether it be that men conscious of great reputation think themselves above the reach of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 páginas
...; 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...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house. The entrance at... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 440 páginas
...; 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...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house. The entrance at... | |
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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... 
