 | 1810 - 612 pages
...in the class " degustibusnondispulandnm:" every man mustbelcft fohis own judgment in the estimation. "It is surely superfluous to answer the question, that has once been asked," says the Colossus of En. glish literature, " whether Pope was a Poet, otherwise than by asking in return,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...nowdone their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...? 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the def1ner, though a defin1tion which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...poetical fume, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogiuin : — " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was u poet? otherwise than by asking iu return, if Pope be not* port, where is poetry to be found ? To... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...nowdone their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...? 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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...? 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 - 1820 - 412 pages
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...? 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : — " After all this, it is surelj superfluous to answer the question that has once been...poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be HOI a poet, where is puetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by n definition, will only shew the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 pages
...most excellent one of the art.'* Many .years after, Johnson interrogating this critic, inquired, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry, he added, by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer.' Yet such a definer arose in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 pages
...the most excellent one of the art.'* Many years after, Johnson interrogating this critic, inquired, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry, he added, by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer.' Yet such a definer arose in... | |
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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... 
