 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the 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 - 540 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the 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 - 1890 - 568 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let are supposed to subsist.— Johnson's exemplification...that solidity is matter.— KEARNEY. Beattie : with ; Jet their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 pàgines
...and C. vol. ii. p. 140, and still more fully, Mr. Courthope in his Life of Pope. Ibid. vol. v. . f mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their...productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretentious of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he i-iven the world only his version, the name of... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 602 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." 1060 The Latter Day Glory. LORD of all worlds, incline thy bounteous ear, Thy children's voice, in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope 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 wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope 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 wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let e original of which lies now before I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope 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 wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined,... | |
| |
If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. 
