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 - Page 524edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade bis friends and himself that cares and passions could...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...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...and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, be extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 532 pages
...which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excludod. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman....an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to he proud of their defects, he extracted ail ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...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...could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasnre of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 pages
...dignified it with the titie of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who IMS mmi; frequent nml to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passious could he exclnded. nss'd : alive, and curling round, 435 He stung the hird, whose throat received exclnde the sun ; hut Pope's excavatiou was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured he battle relaxing during the absence of Hector, Glaucus...the knowledge of the friendship and hospitality past enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...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 entrance to his garden ; and as some... | |
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