 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 shew the narrowness of the def1ner, though a defin1tion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition... | |
 | 1820 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer; though a definition... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...needless curiosity. 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 f To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the dcfiner, though a definition... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 108 pages
...Doctor ? " To circumscribe poetry by a definition will *' only show the narrowness of the definer." " If " POPE be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?" He might as well have said, " If the LARK be not " a singing bird, where is a singing bird to be "... | |
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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? 
