 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...wilfnot easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire was once high-constable of Holborn, and had the best...opportunities of knowing the state of the poor, told me, that stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." [ remember once to have heard Johnson... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 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 of poetry ; let (heir productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the prelensions of Pope will no longer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire t virtues to our age : Nor let us say (those English...gone) The last true Briton lies beneath this stone. stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be DO more disputed. Had he given the world only his version,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 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." I remember once to have heard Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 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." I remember once to have heard Johnson... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...not easily be mide. Let us look round upon the present time, and bark upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...of poetry ; let their productions be examined, and tln;ir claims stated, tnd the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world... | |
 | 1835 - 838 pages
...is poetry to be found? Let us look round on the present time, and bark on 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. A thousand years may elapse before there... | |
 | 1835 - 492 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...poetry to be found 1 J^et us look round on the present time, and back on 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. A thousand years may elapse before there... | |
 | 1835 - 312 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,... | |
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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... 
