| James Thorne - 1847 - 480 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...It may be frequently remarked of the studious and reflective" — continues the Doctor, using weightier words, and a more solemn manner than one is prepared... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 442 páginas
...Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrave ••) 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." — C. (2) Dr. James Foster was an eminent preacher among the dissenters; and Pope professes to prefer... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 páginas
...but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to bo proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an...remarked of the studious and speculative, that they arc proud of trifles, and that their amusements seem frivolous and childish; whether it be that men,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 páginas
...amusements, the assistant! of his labours, whom the hand of death has snatched away. aid. Trifles. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and...amusements seem frivolous and childish; whether it bo that men conscious of great reputation think themselves above the reach of censure, and safe in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 páginas
...his amusements, the assistants of his labours, whom the hand of death has snatched away. md. Trifles. 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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 LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS. safe... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 568 páginas
...originality to arise out of commonplace wants. . ' He extracted an ornament,' says Dr. Johnson of Pope, ' from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' If for ' vanity ' we read ' taste,' the aim of architecture could VOL. xcv. NO. cxc. 2 A not not be... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 568 páginas
...originality to arise out of commonplace wants. ' He extracted an ornament,' says Dr. Johnson of Pope, ' from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' If for ' vanity ' we read ' taste,' the aim of architecture could vOL. xcv. NO. cxc. 2 A not not be... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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...childish : — whether it be that men, conscious of great reputation, think themselves above the reach of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent... | |
| 1860 - 894 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 also understood the art of condensing a long train of reasoning .into a single sentence. For... | |
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