| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 sider
...well have pretended to all the attachment which a reasonable man would desire." JOHNSON ON POPE. " It is surely superfluous to answer the question that...if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? Let us look round on the present time, and back on the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of... | |
| 1835 - 838 sider
...ON POPE. " It is surely superfluous to answer the question that has been asked, whether Pope was » poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? Let us look round on the present time, and bark on the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind... | |
| 1835 - 306 sider
...be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of... | |
| Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 sider
...the name, were no poets. ' To circumscribe poetry by a definition,' says Johnson, ' will only show the narrowness of the definer ; ' though a definition,...which shall exclude Pope, will not * easily be made.' — To this doctrine I subscribe ; — unless you shape your definition as I have just hinted, VOL.... | |
| Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 sider
...the name, were no poets. ' To circumscribe poetry by a definition,' says Johnson, ' will only show the narrowness of the definer ; ' though a definition,...shall exclude Pope, will not * easily be made.'— To this doctrine I subscribe ; — unless you shape your definition as I have just hinted, VOL. i.... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 590 sider
...where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show th*«arrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 sider
...FRONTISPIECE, from ' Eloisa to Abelard,' V. 349. VIGNETTE : Scene in Windsor Forest. " It is 3nrely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope wa3 a poet? otherwise than byasldng in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 sider
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. p of night, or orb of day. The walls were massy brass : the cornice high Blue bven asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking iu return, If Pope be not a port, where... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 sider
...the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to angwer ociation; and from others we shrink with horror, H poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 sider
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
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