 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...Acldison, in the Biographia Britannica. 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. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...f * See, however, the life of Addison in the Biographia Britannica, last edit. 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he eudeavonred to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. 9 See, however, Addison's Life, in the Biographia BritaDoica. It may be frequently... | |
 | ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 pages
...Life of Addison in the Biographia Britannica, last edition. R. voured to persuade his friends <ind himself that cares and passions could be excluded....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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 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...and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he ex* See, however, the Life of Addison in the Biographia Britannica, last edition. R. tracted an ornament... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 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. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade bis friends and himself that cares and passions could...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 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...and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, be extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasnre of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit...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... | |
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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... 
