 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...excavation was requifite as an entrance to his garden, and, as fome men try to be proud of their defecls, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where neceffity enforced a paflage. It may be frequently remarked of the fludious and fpeculative, that they... | |
 | 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 - 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, 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 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...of censure, and safe in the admission of negligent indulgendes, or that mankind expect from elevated genius an uniformity of greatness, and watch its... | |
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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. 
