 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 Seiten
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the eifort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which will exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 Seiten
...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...that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet I otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...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...that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet J otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe... | |
 | 1825 - 418 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : — " 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... | |
 | 1826 - 434 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 Seiten
...and needless curiosity. ' After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question, that hac 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 ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 Seiten
...poetical fume, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : — " s wilfnot easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. wn to thee ; All chance, direction which thou canst not see : 290 All discord, harmony tbnnd? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the dcfiner; though... | |
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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? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only... 
