 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...poetry to be found? To circumscribe pot 11 by a definition will only shew the nlrrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look rooM upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...poetry to bs found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will...upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 páginas
...poetry to be found!' To urcumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the deftner, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will...past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind lias decreed the wreath ot poetry; let their productions be examined, and thtir claims stated, and... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 páginas
...to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will...easily be made. Let us look round upon the present lime, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 páginas
...to be found ? 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 made. Lei us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will...upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...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...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him; if the writer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 páginas
...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...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Hud he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him ; if the writer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall ex^ elude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon...claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no mpre disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 páginas
...to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will...the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined,... | |
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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? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only... 
