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" 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 made. Let us look round upon the present time and back upon the past; let us... "
The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 464
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Wordsworth and His Circle

David Watson Rannie - 1907 - 422 pages
...held up as a genuine and great poet " Let us look round upon the present time," cried the Doctor, " and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version [of Homer] the name of poet must have been allowed him." Wordsworth's view of Pope was very...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Together with a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1910 - 548 pages
...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 the wreath...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand Cor. et Ad. — Line 28: For " apotheosis...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...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 inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...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 inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...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 inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him ; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his...
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An Introduction to the Study of Literature

William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 484 pages
...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 inquire to whom the...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." 1 These sentences, it will be noted, have the ring of apology. Why ? Because the pretensions of Pope...
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Life of Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pages
...poet's particular case of the rule before laid down that success is its own only test. ' Let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.'8 It has been already pointed out that the same test may be applied to Johnson himself, and...
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pages
...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 inquire to whom the...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson say, "Sir, A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear...
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A Study in the Thought of Addison, Johnson and Burke

Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 pages
...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 inquire to whom the...stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.2 BURKE'S CRITICISM. The criticism of Edmund Burke is limited -to one investigation, A 'Philosophical...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...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 the wreath...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him : if the writer of the Iliad were to class his...
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