 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - 1883 - 128 pages
...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 1— Johnson. 29. It appeareth in nothing more, that Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 pages
...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 shew the narrowness of the definer ; though a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 pages
...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 ?" — Johnson's Works, viii. 345. 0 A tragedy by Edmund Smith. Addison, in the Spectator^ No. 18,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pages
...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 ?"— Johnson's Worhs, viii. 345. 6 A tragedy by Edmund Smith. Addison, in the Spectator^ No. 18, writing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? al feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, " Who, born ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 602 pages
...answer specifically in his Lives of the Poi'ts : "If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry 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 not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 598 pages
...asked in Dr. Johnson's time, and to which he gave answer specifically in his Lives of the Poets : " If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition... | |
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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? 
