 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 pages
...which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excludod. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman....an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to he proud of their defects, he extracted ail ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...dignified it with the titie of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who IMS mmi; frequent nml to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured he battle relaxing during the absence of Hector, Glaucus...the knowledge of the friendship and hospitality past enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pages
...place of silence and retreat from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that care and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...place of silence and retreat from which he endeavoured to persuade his frierds and himself that care and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often...Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit Ulan to exelude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden; and as... | |
 | 1833 - 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. It may frequently be remarked, of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to sulicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." Johnson's figure was large, robust, and unweildy, from corpulency. His appearance... | |
 | A. Walton - 1834 - 158 pages
...opposite side of the road, be adorned it with fossile bodies and dignified it with the title of a Grotto. As some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Pope was buried in the parish church of Twickenham, to whose memory his friend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 472 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 pages
...wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than to exclude the sun; bnt Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." This— and a good deal more of the same tone follows — is surely treating a... | |
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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... 
