 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is, surely, superfluous to answer...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the eifort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which will exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...done (heir best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is, surely, superfluous to answer...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...their • best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is, surely, superfluous to answer...that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet I otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 pages
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is, surely, superfluous to answer...that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet J otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe... | |
 | 1825 - 418 pages
...the most excellent one of the art. Many years after, Johnson, interrogating this critic, inquired, " If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry," he added, " by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer." Yet such a definer arose... | |
 | 1825 - 422 pages
...art. Many years after, Johnson, interrogating this critic, inquired, " If VOL. ii. B CONTROVERSY ON Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry," he added, " by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer." Yet such a definer arose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 pages
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : — " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...careful to vary his terminations, or to refuse admission, at a small distance, to the same rhymes. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the efforts of tedious toil and needless curiosity. ' After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question, that hac once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking, in return, If Pope be not... | |
| |
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? 
