 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...was a poet ? asks in return, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not readily be made.' Joseph War ton, too, Johnson's... | |
 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 pages
...was a poet f - asks in return, 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not readily be made.' Joseph Warton, too, Johnson's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? debt of hers, which, though small in itself, was then considerable to him. This appe though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 372 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 UB look round upon the present... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...question 382 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 4, though a definition... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 pages
...was a poet ? asks in return, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? ' and adds that ' to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not readily be made.' Joseph Warton, too, Johnson's... | |
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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? 
