 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 inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.  Lives - Страница 524под редакцията на - 1800Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1876 - 608 страници
...described by Johnson : ' A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | 1876 - 612 страници
...described by Johnson : ' A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | 1877 - 814 страници
...the following sentence, from his Life of Pope, at whom he has been sneering for building a grotto: "A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." Johnson's figure was large, robust, and unwieldy, from corpulency. IIappearance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 страници
...dignified it with the title of a grotto ; a place of silence and retreat, from •which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 страници
...described by Johnson : " A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 страници
...described by Johnson : " A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 страници
...described by Johnson : " A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men tiy to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 страници
...dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may / be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that / \ they... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 страници
...Johnson. "A grotto," remarks Dr. Johnson, "is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who had more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun,...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The best description of Pope's grotto, and of the poet's satisfaction and pleasure... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 страници
...pleasure nf an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun : but Pone's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden...ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a ynMo whero necessity enforced a jHiasaj/tf." 3 Formerly in possession of Mr. HG Hnhn. Mr. Currut.herH... | |
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