 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pagina’s
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pagina’s
...he endea* See, however, the Life of Addison in the Biographia Britan* nica, last edition. R. voured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the .studious and speculative, that they ar^ proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pagina’s
...with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to ]>ersuade his friends and himself, that cares and passions could...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pagina’s
...endeavoured to persuade bis friends and himself, that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto }f not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pagina’s
...which he endea* See, however, the Life of Addison in the Biographia Britannica, last edition. R. voured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation wag requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pagina’s
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to beproud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pagina’s
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pagina’s
...dignified it with the title of a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Popes excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pagina’s
...or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Popes excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden,...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative^ that they are proud'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pagina’s
...Britanniea. ..!--• ; . - T „ j a grotto, a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
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A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted... 
