...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto loomy with rain and wind, le walks into the dark trackless woods frefjuent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance...

...lady; but Johnson hated grottos, and thought, as he has said in his /.//. of Pope, that they were " not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who...frequent need to solicit than to exclude the sun." Ante, p. 245, n. — ED.] s The correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine, who subscribes himself Sciolus,...

...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that care and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman,...the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrave ••) to his garden ; and as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament...

...often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude tho sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to bo proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto...

...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. 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...

...endeavoured to persuade his friends, and himself, that cares and passions could be excluded. 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...

...following sentence, from his Life of Pope, at whom he has been sneering for building a grotto: "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...

...be poor." Concerning this plaything of Pope's, Doctor Johnson growled in this wise : — " 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...

...Johnson, "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...of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconveaience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Bishop Warburton goes,...

...Nothing of Pope's creation now remains but the grotto, sarcastically described by Johnson : ' A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has often more need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance...