 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade hia frienda and himself that cares and passions could he as in verse have shined (In polish'd verse) the manners...! could I mount on the Mœonian wing, Your arms, hut Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to he proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured ury; and from that time was engaged in supporting...did not, however, so much engage him as to withhold inconvenienco, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...dignified it with the title of a -lotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1839 - 708 pages
...his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after all;... | |
 | 1839 - 742 pages
...friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary ns an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try to...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after all ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...and dignified it with the title of a grouo, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as gome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity... | |
 | Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 426 pages
...his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. * * * The excavation was necessary as an entrance to his garden ; and, as some men try...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." And quite right too. It was a little spark of the true philosophy, after all ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...dignified it with the title of a erotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frefjuent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotte is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman,...frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but I'ope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men try to be proud of their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade hie rposes merely didactic, when something is to be told...but against that inattention by which known truth« ; hut Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men try to be proud... | |
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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... 
