 | Richard Stuteley Cobbett - 1872 - 452 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 an ornament from an inconveaience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Bishop Warburton goes,... | |
 | 1876 - 618 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.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | 1876 - 612 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.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | 1876 - 608 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.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | 1877 - 814 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." Johnson's figure was large, robust, and unwieldy, from corpulency. IIappearance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 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." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 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." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 pages
...exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men tiy to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 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... | |
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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... 
