 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 страница
...the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...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 страница
...them, and 1'ope very seldom laboured in vain." " After all this, .it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 страница
...and the impartiality of enlightened criticism. " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 страница
...be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition...easily be made. Let us look round upon the present lime, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 страница
...pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium :—' ; After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope wili not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 страница
...pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium: — " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 страница
...the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...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 wreath of poetry ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 страница
...effort of tedious toil and needless cu-. riosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...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 wreath of poetry ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 страница
...it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet f otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not...narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall ex^ elude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 страница
...be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition...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;... | |
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After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? 
