...place of silence and retreat from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that care and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often...Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than to exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrave ••) to his garden ; and...

...dignified it with the till* of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude tho sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to...

...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...

...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...

...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. His appearance...

...not often the wish or the pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than to exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Johnson also understood the art of condensing a long train of reasoning .into...

...with the title of a grotto ; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade hit friends and himself that cares and passions could...not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who 1ms more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an...

...country, and be poor." Concerning this plaything of Pope's, Doctor Johnson growled in this wise : — " A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman...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...

...his master spent on his gardens and other improvements about 5,ooo/. "A grotto," remarks Dr. Johnson, "is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman,...of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconveaience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Bishop Warburton goes,...

...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....