 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 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...present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to 1 The deep and pathetic morality of the Vanity of Human Wishes, has often extracted tears from those... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 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...present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to 1 The deep and pathetic morality of the Vanity of Human Wishes, has often extracted tears from those... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 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...is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by n definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 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 a poet, where is poetry to be found ?"— Johnson's Worhs, viii. 345. 6 A tragedy by Edmund Smith. Addison, in the Spectator^ No. 18, writing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 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 a poet, where is poetry to be found ?" — Johnson's Works, viii. 345. 6 A tragedy by Edmund Smith. Addison, in the Spectator^ No. 18,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 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...voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; Jet their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 страници
...Pope be not poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition...the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice ' Dunciad, Bk. III. Aid. P. vol. iii. p. 311. 'J Virgidemiamm. Bishop Hall's... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 страници
...Pope, in reply to the question which had been asked, even in his day, whether Pope 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 the narrowness of the definer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 страници
...superfluous to answer the question /thai, has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet ? otherI wise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is Ipoetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 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... | |
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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... 
