 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pages
...to exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." This ( — and a good deal more of the same tone follows — ) is surely... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...to exelude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden; and as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." This (—and a good deal more of the same tone follows—) is surely... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pages
...than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may frequently be remarked, of the studious and speculative, that... | |
 | A. Walton - 1834 - 158 pages
...of the road, be adorned it with fossile bodies and dignified it with the title of a Grotto. As some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Pope was buried in the parish church of Twickenham, to whose memory... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...the sun; hut Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to he Of prodigies, and portents seen in air, Of fires...plagues, and stars with hlazing hair, Of turns of fo necessity enforced a passage. It may he frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some ho wrote verses too." His poems consist of elegies, odes, and ballads, inconvenienco, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1839 - 708 pages
...passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after... | |
 | 1839 - 742 pages
...passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary ns an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1840 - 426 pages
...passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after... | |
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A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted... 
