 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...was rcquifite as an entrance to his garden., and, as fame men try to be proud of their defeats, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a naffage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...excavation was requifite as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...excavation was requifite as an entrance to his gar, andj as fomemen try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceflity enforced a paffage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...excavation was requifite as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...was requifite* as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to fee proud of their defeats, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto ' Where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...excavation was requifiteas an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the ftudious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity forced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
....assistants of his labours, whom the hand of death, has snatched away, ' , Idler, vol. i, p. 249. THIFIE*. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and...of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent indulgences, or that mankind expect, from elevated genius, an uniformity of greataess, 113 * 'and and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity forced a passage. It may be frequently remarked of the studious and speculative, that they are proud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...excavation wag requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity...of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent indulgences, or that mankind expect from elevated genius an uniforr. ujity of greatness, and watch... | |
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Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. 
