 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...fun; but Pope's excavation was requifite as an entrance to his gar, andj as fomemen try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceflity enforced a paffage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...but Pope's excavation was requifite as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...but Pope's excavation was requifite as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceflity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...excavation was requifite as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defecls, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the fludious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...excavation was rcquifite as an entrance to his garden., and, as fame men try to be proud of their defeats, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a naffage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fun; but Pope's excavation was requifiteas an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...but Pope's excavation was requifite as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...excavation was requifite* as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to fee proud of their defeats, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto ' Where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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 an ornament from an...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity forced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
....assistants of his labours, whom the hand of death, has snatched away, ' , Idler, vol. i, p. 249. THIFIE*. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and...and childish; whether it be that men, conscious of great reputation, think themselves above the reach of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent... | |
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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... 
