| samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pagina’s
...to aniV>er the queflion that has once been aiked,. Whether Pope was a poet? otherwife than by afking in return. If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pagina’s
...to anfwer the queftion that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwife than by afking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only mew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pagina’s
...to anfwer the queftion that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwife than by afkirig in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer, though- a definition... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pagina’s
...to anfwer the queftion that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwife than by afking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pagina’s
...to anfwer the queftion that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet; otherwife than by afking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circurhfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pagina’s
...to anfwer the queftion that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet; otherwife than by afking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only mew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition... | |
| James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pagina’s
...to anfwer the queftion that has once "been afked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwife than by afking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition, will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer ; though a definition... | |
| 1794 - 918 pagina’s
...ioOicthing by the term different from the general acceptation. " If Pope be not a poet," fays Dr. Johnfun, " where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only ftmw the nirrownefs of the definer, though a definition which ihall exclude Pope, will not eafiiy be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 pagina’s
...to anfwer the quefhbn that has once been afked, whether Pope 'was a poet ? otherwife than by afking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found t To circumfcribe poetry by a defmition will only fhow the narrownefs of the defmer, though a definition... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagina’s
...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 the question that has one been asked, Whether Pope was a poet; otherwise than by asking in retain, If Pope be uot a poet,... | |
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