 | 1876 - 618 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 road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | 1876 - 608 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 road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | 1876 - 612 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 excavation...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.' The passage is under a public road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | 1877 - 814 pages
...the following sentence, from his Life of Pope, at whom he has been sneering for building a grotto: "A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto, where necessity enforced a passage." Johnson's figure was large, robust, and unwieldy, from corpulency. IIappearance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 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 road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 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 road which separates the front garden from the house.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 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...requisite as an entrance to his garden, and as some men tiy to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 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... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 pages
...Johnson. "A grotto," remarks Dr. Johnson, "is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who had more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun,...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." The best description of Pope's grotto, and of the poet's satisfaction and pleasure... | |
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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... 
