...ace of silence and retreat from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself .nat care and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often...Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than to exclude the sun ; Put Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden ; and as some...

...the downfall of Walpole. Aid. P. vol. ii. p. 187. the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as ail entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud...

...by-the-bye, there is an admirably sententious passage somewhere or other in the works of Dr. Johnson : "As some men try to be proud of their defects, he...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." lint to return to present times, the ancient chronicler is still altogether right...

...dignified it with the title of a grotto, — a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. After all, therefore, there was some excuse for Pope's folly, but what can be said...

...Garden. "A grotto," says Johnson, apropos of that still more celebrated one at Pope's Twickenham villa, " is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman,...frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun"; but the increasing prominence of the mossy cave and hermit's cell, both in descriptive verse and in gardening,...

...dignified it with the title of a grotto ; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...excluded. A grotto is 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...

...dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...excluded. A grotto is 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...

...dignified it with the title of a grotto — a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than to exclude the sun, but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some...

...Blount told Spence, ' it was in his grotto, for that, from first to last, cost him above ;£ 1,000.' deavoured to persuade his friends and himself that...is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, 119 who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite...

...dignified it with the title of a Grotto ; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and...inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Pope was quite as proud of his gardening operations as he was of his poetry, though...