 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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 - 1900 - 928 pages
...to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking mother was so warm, and so liberal, that he took upon himself a d circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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 - 1905 - 582 pages
...answer the question 382 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 4, though a definition... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 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,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 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 ?" — Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81). "Mr. Pope's Ethical Epistles deserve to... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 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?"—Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81). " Mr. Pope's Ethical Epistles deserve... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 650 pages
...studiously designed, to be a protest against both. Thus, in the ' Life of Pope,' he exultingly asks, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and in dealing with poets, notably Milton, Parnell, Collins, Dyer, and Gray, into whose work the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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... | |
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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? 
