| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...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
...them, and 1'ope very seldom laboured in vain." " After all this, .it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...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... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pàgines
...and the impartiality of enlightened criticism. " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...? 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... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pàgines
...be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition...easily be made. Let us look round upon the present lime, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pàgines
...pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium :—' ; After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...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
...pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium: — " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...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
...the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope...made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ;... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pàgines
...effort of tedious toil and needless cu-. riosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope...made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ;... | |
| 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...narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall ex^ elude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pàgines
...be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition...made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry;... | |
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