 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 páginas
...requisite as an entrance to bis gartten, and, as some men try to b* proud of their defects, he exEracted an ornament from an inconvenience, •and, vanity...passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious aad speculative, that they ai e proud of trifles, and that their amusements seem frivolous and childish.;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...enforced a passage. It may he frequsntly remarked of the stndious and speculative, that they are prond terror, not to Mr. Dennis only, but to all Christian people. This charitable he that men, couscious of great reputatiou, think themselves ahove the reach of ceusure, • and safe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud liged the wealthy, and relieved the poor. 20 1100...bavin; left the Seid, the Grecians prevail. Hetenus, great reputation, think themselves above the reach of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 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." This ( — and a good deal more of the same tone follows — ) is surely treating a trifling circumstance... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 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." This (—and a good deal more of the same tone follows—) is surely treating a trifling circumstance... | |
 | 1833 - 370 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...grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may frequently be remarked, of the studious and speculative, that they are proud of trifles, and that their... | |
 | A. Walton - 1834 - 158 páginas
...adorned it with fossile bodies and dignified it with the title of a Grotto. 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 buried in the parish church of Twickenham, to whose memory his friend Warburton erected a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 472 páginas
...was requisite, as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, be extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity...childish; — whether it be that men, conscious of great reputation, think themselves above the reach of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...hut Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to he proud odigies, and portents seen in air, Of fires and plagues,...Of turns of fortune, changes in the state, The fall he frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud of trifles, and that their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 páginas
...garden, and as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenienco, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced...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... | |
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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... 
