 | Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 598 էջ
...asked in Dr. Johnson's time, and to which he gave answer specifically in his Lives of the Poets : " If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...? 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 էջ
...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 էջ
...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,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 էջ
...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 - 928 էջ
...fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium:821 — " d, and then we shall see how just my observation is. That shall be the criterion. show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 372 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 - 1904 - 726 էջ
...poetical fame by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : — 'After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. 366 WARBURTON AND JOHNSON [1781 Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 էջ
...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...definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer 4, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 էջ
...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 էջ
...by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing the following triumphant eulogium : — " After ah1 this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question...? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope, will not easily... | |
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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? 
