 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 страници
...was a poet ? asks in return, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show...though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not readily be made.' Joseph Warton, too, Johnson's contemporary and friend, while preferring the Romantic... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 страници
...the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?" — Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81). "Mr. Pope's Ethical Epistles deserve to... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 страници
...the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?"—Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81). " Mr. Pope's Ethical Epistles deserve... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 страници
...a heavy hand, he had no doubt about Pope's place on Parnassus. " If Pope be not a poet," he asks, " where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made." 2 In 1806 a new impetus was given to the Pope controversy by the Rev. W. Lisle Bowles's edition of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 страници
...excellence, and pronouncing, a triumphant apotheosis. — "After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 страници
...will easily be found in all his other works. . . . After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 страници
...will easily be found in all his other works. . . . After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 страници
...will easily be found in all his other works. . . . After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 484 страници
...and needless curiosity. After all this," the writer concludes, " it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 646 страници
...answered by Dr. Johnson with the same common sense as by Hazlitt: "It is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
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After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? 
