 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 enforced a passage.  Lives - Էջ 524խմբագրել է - 1800Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
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...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 ro.id which separates the front garden from the... | |
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