 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 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 2. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative that... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 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... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 422 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." Pope was quite as proud of his gardening operations as he was of his... | |
 | James Edmund Vincent - 1909 - 392 pages
...these times. It was necessary as an entrance to Pope's Thames-side garden. To quote Dr. Johnson, " he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." POPE'S VILLA, TWICKENHAM (From Westalts "Picturesque Tour of the River... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1913 - 372 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... | |
 | Gordon S. Maxwell - 1924 - 350 pages
...passage, which he elaborated into a grotto, and of which Dr. Johnson somewhat ponderously remarked : "He extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." This was the poet's great delight, and in praise of which he has written... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 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... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 pages
...The first possibility: "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 inconvenience." This suggestion is followed by a series of speculations generated by the possible implications of the... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 pages
...made clear by Johnson: "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" (LP 135; italics mine). At once an ornament and an inconvenience, the... | |
 | Madeleine Kahn - 1991 - 188 pages
...on his estate, Twickenham—and he makes this simultaneously astute and arch pronouncement: "As some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience [that of having to go under the London road] and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced... | |
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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... 
