 | George Paston - 1909 - 422 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." Pope was quite as proud of his gardening operations as he was of his poetry, though... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 666 pages
...could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frquent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...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 Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 666 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...the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frquent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - Art - 1913 - 370 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... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - Biography - 1928 - 1452 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured Lord! but let thy will be done." With which expression...was to speak only these few words: " Good Doctor, enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
..."relaxation." The precise nature of the contradiction inherent in the grotto is made clear by Johnson: "Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage" (LP 135; italics mine). At once an ornament and an inconvenience, the grotto simultaneously... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 pages
...frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to the garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.173 Johnson blinds himself to Pope's merging of geological verisimilitude with a... | |
 | Christopher Christie - Architecture - 2000 - 374 pages
...disparate as Stowe and Stourhead, The Leasowes and Twickenham. 29 Dr Johnson famously decried this feature: 'but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage'. Dr Johnson is heing a little unfair on Pope, who right from the start envisaged... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 348 pages
...vanity. In his Life of Pope, for example, he observes of Pope's grotto with a modicum of contempt, "as some men try to be proud of their defects, he...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." 1 1 The biographer's studied disavowal, his reduction to "vanity," in the coupletlike... | |
 | American periodicals - 1876 - 880 pages
...described by Johnson: " A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The passage is under a public ro.id which separates the front garden from the... | |
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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... 
