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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... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes - Página 94
por Samuel Johnson - 1811
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Rambles by Rivers: The Thames, Volúmenes1-2

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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volumen7

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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

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,...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

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...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

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...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volumen3

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen95

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen95

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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volumen66

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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