 | British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...not easily be 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...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will bo no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 pages
...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...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...not easily be 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...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed, Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...not easily be 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...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 pages
...not easily be 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...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 pages
...upon the present time, and back upon the past: let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has given the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 pages
...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...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...not easily be 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...let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...not easily he made. Let us look around upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined, ami their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...not easily he made. Let us look round upou the present time, and hack upou the past; let us inquire *V W ~* " prodnctious he exanuned and their claims stated, and the preteusious of Pope will he no more disputed.... | |
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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 made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us... 
