 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...not eafily be made. Let us look round upon the prefent time, and back upon the paft ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...let their productions be examined, and their claims ftated, and the pretenfions of Pope will be no more difputed. Had he given the world only his verfion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...not easily be made. Let us look rooM upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their prodnc tions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretension of Pof* will be no more disputed.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet muft have been allowed him: if" the writer of the "Iliad"* were to class... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind lias decreed the wreath ot poetry; let their productions be examined, and thtir claims stated, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; Jet their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed. Hud he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him ; if the writer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him : if the writer of the " Iliad" were to class... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...definition which shall ex^ elude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the...claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no mpre disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope wiH be no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed... | |
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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 us look round upon the present time and back upon the past; let us... 
