| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has one been asked, Whether Pope was a poet; otherwise than by asking in retain, If Pope be uot a poet,... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to bs found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pàgines
...upon human life; much labour has been bestowed upon them, and 1'ope very seldom laboured in vain." " After all this, .it is surely superfluous to answer...Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found!' To urcumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the deftner, though a definition... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pàgines
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium: — " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pàgines
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium :—' ; After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope wili not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pàgines
...done their best, and what shall he added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pàgines
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...? 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pàgines
...best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. o 2 After After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...Whether Pope was a poet ; otherwise than by asking in re, turn, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pàgines
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the eftbrt of tedious toil and needless cu.r riosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet f otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe... | |
| 1810 - 596 pàgines
...swperiuonts to answer the question, that has once beei asked," says the Colossus of English lifeiattire, " whether Pope was a Poet, otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetrjr to he found ?" Weareboldtoan&wei, ia this last work of Mr. Fel. lowes : far whatever thercfsei... | |
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