 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 oldal
...Pope, in reply to the question which had been asked, even in his day, whether Pope was a poet ? asks in return, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 oldal
...superfluous to answer the question /thai, has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet ? otherI wise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is Ipoetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 oldal
...and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and 30 needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that...? 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 - 1899 - 236 oldal
...and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and 30 needless curiosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that...? 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 oldal
...Pope, in reply to the question which had been asked, even in his day, whether Pope was a poet f - asks in return, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 oldal
...fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing, a triumphant apotheosis. — "After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that...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 - 1904 - 726 oldal
...demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : — 'After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that...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 - 1905 - 582 oldal
...tedious toil and needless curiosity. After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question 382 that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet...? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer 4, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 oldal
...Pope, in reply to the question which had been asked, even in his day, whether Pope was a poet ? asks in return, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 204 oldal
...the other hand, unless a definition of poetry be framed — and Dr. Johnson has well remarked that "to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer" — which shall exclude all gnomic and satiric verse, and so debar the claims of Hesiod, Juvenal, and... | |
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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... 
