 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 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 best description of Pope's grotto, and of the poet's satisfaction... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 pages
...than exclude the sun : but Pone's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a ynMo whero necessity enforced a jHiasaj/tf." 3 Formerly in possession of Mr. HG Hnhn. Mr. Currut.herH... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 634 pages
...: but Pope's <>xc;ivation was requisite aa an entrance to his garden ; and, as someiu.cn try to lie proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity pioductjd a \fiutlt> where necessity enforced a ^«a««j/c." A letter to Edward Blount (June, 1725),... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 pages
...to exclude the sun ; Put 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." — 0. ; Dr. James Foster was an eminent preacher among the dissenters... | |
 | 1895 - 756 pages
...there is an admirably sententious passage somewhere or other in the works of Dr. Johnson : "As some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." lint to return to present times, the ancient chronicler is still altogether... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1896 - 272 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. After all, therefore, there was some excuse for Pope's folly, but what... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1896 - 136 pages
...formerly been divided from it by a road, was made in the following year. " Pope," says Dr. Johnson, " extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity forced a passage." There is an eloquent description of this grotto in a letter from Pope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their X defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious 38 JOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE.... | |
 | East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society - 1901 - 470 pages
...was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, lie extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." And in W. Roscoe's life of Pope, vol. i, p. 220 :— " The property... | |
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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... 
