| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pàgines
...tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is, surely, superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet...will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pàgines
...tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is, surely, superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet...will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pàgines
...tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is, surely, superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet...will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pàgines
...is, surely, superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet I otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not...will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 pàgines
...is, surely, superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet J otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not...will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pàgines
...tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet?...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... | |
| 1825 - 418 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1825 - 422 pàgines
...art. Many years after, Johnson, interrogating this critic, inquired, " If VOL. ii. B CONTROVERSY ON 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 444 pàgines
...following triumphant eulogium : — " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked — whether Pope was a poet,...will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the... | |
| 1826 - 434 pàgines
...distance, to the same rhymes. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than...found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which will exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
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