 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 страници
...pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium: "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... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 страници
...imagination, judgment, colors of language, and in melody. "It is, surely, he said, 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;... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 страници
...the six volumes of his Correspondence. POPE POPE AFTER all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. When Dr. Johnson handed down that famous decision he had no means of foreseeing, and indeed would not... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 страници
...the six volumes of his Correspondence. POPE POPE AFTER all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. When Dr. Johnson handed down that famous decision he had no means of foreseeing, and indeed would not... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 страници
...the six volumes of his Correspondence. POPE POPE AFTER all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. When Dr. Johnson handed down that famous decision he had no means of foreseeing, and indeed would not... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 322 страници
...the six volumes of his Correspondence. POPE POPE AFTER all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. When Dr. Johnson handed down that famous decision he had no means of foreseeing, and indeed would not... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 страници
...multiplicity of Homer's sentiments and descriptions." — " 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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 страници
...be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition...made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ;... | |
 | John Dennis - 1928 - 280 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...of view such as that expressed by Joseph Warton. "After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" The remark comes at the end of Johnson's analysis of the poetry, and the reader is thus referred to... | |
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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? 
