 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 - 1811 - 366 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...an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to beproud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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 poetry - 1819 - 364 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...frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Popes excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Popes excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden,...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 - 1820 - 406 pages
...f * See, however, the life of Addison in the Biographia Britannica, last edit. 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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...Acldison, in the Biographia Britannica. 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 - 1820 - 412 pages
...Britanniea. ..!--• ; . - T „ j 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he eudeavonred to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. 9 See, however, Addison's Life, in the Biographia BritaDoica. It may be frequently... | |
 | ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 pages
...Life of Addison in the Biographia Britannica, last edition. R. voured to persuade his friends <ind himself that cares and passions could be excluded....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 - 1824 - 384 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, he ex* See, however, the Life of Addison in the Biographia Britannica, last edition. R. tracted an ornament... | |
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