 | James Boswell - 1901 - 372 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer: though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let UB look round upon the present time, and back upon the...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 - 1904 - 726 pàgines
...a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. 366 WARBURTON AND JOHNSON [1781 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 - 1905 - 582 pàgines
...narrowness of the definer 4, 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... | |
 | David Watson Rannie - 1907 - 422 pàgines
...held up as a genuine and great poet " Let us look round upon the present time," cried the Doctor, " and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version [of Homer] the name of poet must have been allowed him." Wordsworth's view of Pope was very... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him ; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 484 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." 1 These sentences, it will be noted, have the ring of apology. Why ? Because the pretensions of Pope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pàgines
...poet's particular case of the rule before laid down that success is its own only test. ' Let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.'8 It has been already pointed out that the same test may be applied to Johnson himself, and... | |
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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. 
