 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 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 show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 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 ?"— Johnson's Worhs, viii. 345. 6 A tragedy by Edmund Smith. Addison, in the Spectator^ No. 18, writing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 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 ?" — Johnson's Works, viii. 345. 0 A tragedy by Edmund Smith. Addison, in the Spectator^ No. 18,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 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 show the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 598 pages
...asked in Dr. Johnson's time, and to which he gave answer specifically in his Lives of the Poets : " If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...Pope, in reply to the question which had been asked, even in his day, whether Pope was a poet ? asks in return, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 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 - 1899 - 236 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 pages
...Pope, in reply to the question which had been asked, even in his day, whether Pope was a poet f - asks in return, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer,... | |
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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? 
