 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 páginas
...done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; Jet their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 páginas
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past : let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him. ; if the writer of the " Iliad" were to class... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...defin1tion which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him ; if the writer of the " Iliad" were to class... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 páginas
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him : if the writer of the " Iliad" were to class... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 páginas
...«horn the voice uf mankind lus decreed the wreath of poetry ; let (heir productions he examined, und their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." • I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand yean may elupse bii'ore there shall... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past : let us inquire to whom the...more disputed. Had he given the •world only his version, the name of the poet must have been allowed him ; if the writer of the " Iliad" were to class... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past: let us inquire to whom the...decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be ex-v arnincd, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Had he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 páginas
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him : if the writer of the " Iliad" were to class... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 páginas
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 páginas
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him ; if the writer of the " Iliad" were to class... | |
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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 made. Let us look round upon the present time and back upon the past; let us... 
