 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 try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...  Rambles by Rivers: The Thames - 第129页作者：James Thorne - 1847全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 页
...not often the wish or pleasure of an English- 30 man, who has more frequent • need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite...garden ; and, as some men try to be proud of their X defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity... | |
 | East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society - 1901 - 470 页
...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,...and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, lie extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 页
...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... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 664 页
...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 frquent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1913 - 370 页
...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... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 页
...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... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 页
...Johnson's reflections on the apparently trivial subject of Pope's grotto. "A grotto," Johnson observes, "is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun." Johnson then begins to pursue the thought, by providing possible answers to the implied... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 页
...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 the garden, and, as some men... | |
 | 1876 - 880 页
...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... | |
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