 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - Authors, English - 1886 - 632 pages
...pleasure nf an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun : but Pone's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden...ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a ynMo whero necessity enforced a jHiasaj/tf." 3 Formerly in possession of Mr. HG Hnhn. Mr. Currut.herH... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 460 pages
...ace of silence and retreat from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself .nat care and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often...Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than to exclude the sun ; Put Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and as some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...the downfall of Walpole. Aid. P. vol. ii. p. 187. the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as ail entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be...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... | |
 | 1895 - 756 pages
...by-the-bye, there is an admirably sententious passage somewhere or other in the works of Dr. Johnson : "As some men try to be proud of their defects, he...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." lint to return to present times, the ancient chronicler is still altogether right... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - Bamboo - 1896 - 272 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, — 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. After all, therefore, there was some excuse for Pope's folly, but what can be said... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...Garden. "A grotto," says Johnson, apropos of that still more celebrated one at Pope's Twickenham villa, " is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman,...frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun"; but the increasing prominence of the mossy cave and hermit's cell, both in descriptive verse and in gardening,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an English- 30 man, who has more frequent • need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto ; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an English- 30 man, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation... | |
 | East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society - Hertfordshire (England) - 1901 - 470 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto — a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than to exclude the sun, but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...Blount told Spence, ' it was in his grotto, for that, from first to last, cost him above ;£ 1,000.' deavoured to persuade his friends and himself that...is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, 119 who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite... | |
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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... 
