 | 1820 - 632 страници
...the most excellent one of the art.* Many years after, Johnson interrogating this critic, inquired, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is Poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry, he added, by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer.' Yet such a definer arose in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 страници
...the most excellent one of the art.'* Many years after, Johnson interrogating this critic, inquired, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry, he added, by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer.' Yet such a definer arose in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 страници
...most excellent one of the art.'* Many .years after, Johnson interrogating this critic, inquired, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry, he added, by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer.' Yet such a definer arose in... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1820 - 66 страници
...excellent of the ART!" Many years after, Dr. JOHNSON, interrogating this critic, enquired, " If POPE was " not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe " poetry, he added, by a definition, will only shew the narrowness " of the definer." Now, not to point out the... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1821 - 572 страници
..." If Pope BE NOT A POET, •where is POETRY to be found :" Reader, mark the logical consequence. " To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definen." " If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found r" Now, suppose l)r. Warton had said,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 страници
...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...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 страници
...of tedious toil and needless curiosity. 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 f To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the dcfiner, though a definition... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 108 страници
...Doctor ? " To circumscribe poetry by a definition will *' only show the narrowness of the definer." " If " POPE be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" He might as well have said, " If the LARK be not " a singing bird, where is a singing bird to be "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 страници
...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...past: let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has given the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 страници
...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...narrowness of the definer, though a definition which will exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the... | |
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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... 
