 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1896 - 272 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. After all, therefore, there was some excuse for Pope's folly, but what can be said for that of the... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1896 - 136 páginas
...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 to Blunt (No.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 páginas
...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,...passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious 38 JOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE. and speculative, that they are proud of trifles, and that their amusements... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1901 - 304 páginas
...: — " His 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." was extremely stout : " We do not meet often, but at least when we do we always see more of each other."... | |
 | East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society - 1901 - 470 páginas
...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 at Twickenham, on both sides of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 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 2. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative that they are proud of trifles, and... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 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... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 páginas
...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious 215 and speculative, that they are proud of trifles, 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... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 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." Pope was quite as proud of his gardening operations as he was of his poetry, though he affected to... | |
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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... 
