 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 էջ
...poctical fame by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : 'After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once bcen asked, whether Pope was a poct ? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poct, where... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - 1883 - 128 էջ
...value for, gives me no reason to repent of the pains I have been at in composing them. — Addison. 28. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found 1— Johnson. 29. It appeareth in nothing more, that Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 էջ
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium: " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 էջ
...this, it is surely superfluous to ansv the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a po otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, whi is poetry to be found ? To, circumscribe poetry by a definiti will only shew the narrowness of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 էջ
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 էջ
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium: " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 էջ
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his exucl. e.nce, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogiuin : " After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by n definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 էջ
...that in which he had been hitherto placed. Johnson referred, I think, to Warton when he wrote :— " After all this it is surely superfluous to answer...if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?"— Johnson's Worhs, viii. 345. 6 A tragedy by Edmund Smith. Addison, in the Spectator^ No. 18, writing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 էջ
...that in which he had been hitherto placed. Johnson referred, I think, to Warton when he wrote : — " After all this it is surely superfluous to answer...if Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? " — Johnson's Works, viii. 345. 6 A tragedy by Edmund Smith. Addison, in the Spectator, No. 18,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 էջ
...poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : — calm philosophy aside." \Vhat an admirable display...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised show the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
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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? 
