 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the...surely superfluous to answer the question that has one been asked, Whether Pope was a poet; otherwise than by asking in retain, If Pope be uot a poet,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the...return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to bs found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pàgines
...upon human life; much labour has been bestowed upon them, and 1'ope very seldom laboured in vain." " After all this, .it is surely superfluous to answer...Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found!' To urcumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the deftner, though a definition... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pàgines
...the doubt be destroyed, by the authority of reason and the impartiality of enlightened criticism. « After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pàgines
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope wili not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pàgines
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pàgines
...but to attempt any farther improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the...a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pàgines
...it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet f otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not...a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall ex^ elude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pàgines
...best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. o 2 After After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...Whether Pope was a poet ; otherwise than by asking in re, turn, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition... | |
 | 1810 - 612 pàgines
...superfluous to answer the question, that has once been asked," says the Colossus of En. glish literature, " whether Pope was a Poet, otherwise than by asking...if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?" We are bold to answer, in this last work of Mr. Fel. lowes : for whatever the verses of Mr. Pope... | |
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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? 
