...these times. It was necessary as an entrance to Pope's Thames-side garden. To quote Dr. Johnson, " he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." POPE'S VILLA, TWICKENHAM (From Westalts "Picturesque Tour of the River Thames'") TWICKENHAM (from \\~estalts...

...; 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...

...passage, which he elaborated into a grotto, and of which Dr. Johnson somewhat ponderously remarked : "He extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." This was the poet's great delight, and in praise of which he has written in both prose and verse ;...

...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...

...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 an ornament from an...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage" (LP 135; italics mine). At once an ornament and an inconvenience, the grotto simultaneously exemplifies...

...but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to the garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an...vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.173 Johnson blinds himself to Pope's merging of geological verisimilitude with a literary tradition...

...'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'. Dr Johnson is heing a little unfair on Pope, who right from the start envisaged the grotto as heing...

...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 an ornament from an...produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." 1 1 The biographer's studied disavowal, his reduction to "vanity," in the coupletlike balance of this...