 | Great Britain - 1804 - Страниц: 716
...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 - Страниц: 322
...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 - Страниц: 788
...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 - Страниц: 788
...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 - Страниц: 562
...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 - Страниц: 532
...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 - Страниц: 464
...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 - Страниц: 536
...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 - Страниц: 546
...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 - Страниц: 404
...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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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? 
