 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 стор.
...done their best, 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...? 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 - 228 стор.
...done their best, 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...? 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 стор.
...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 стор.
...lessen his poetical fame, by demonstrating his excellence, and pronouncing, a triumphant apotheosis. — "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 - 1904 - 726 стор.
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 стор.
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 204 стор.
...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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 стор.
...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,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 стор.
...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...return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?"—Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81). " Mr. Pope's Ethical Epistles deserve... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 650 стор.
...studiously designed, to be a protest against both. Thus, in the ' Life of Pope,' he exultingly asks, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and in dealing with poets, notably Milton, Parnell, Collins, Dyer, and Gray, into whose work the... | |
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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... 
