 | William Lisle Bowles - 1820 - 52 pages
...declaring of POPE, that he did not think ' him at the head of his profession, and that his species of poetry :' was not the most excellent of the ART!"...was '•' not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? Td circumscribe ' poetry, he added, by a definition, will only shew the narrowness ' of the definer."... | |
 | 1820 - 632 pages
...excellent one of the art.* Many years after, Johnson interrogating this critic, inquired, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is Poetry to be found ? To circumscribe...definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer.' Yet such a definer arose in the disciple of Warton, the Rev. WL Bowles, who has distinguished himself... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 pages
...excellent one of the art.'* Many years after, Johnson interrogating this critic, inquired, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe...definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer.' Yet such a definer arose in the disciple of Warton, the Rev. WL Bowles, who has distinguished himself... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 pages
...excellent one of the art.'* Many .years after, Johnson interrogating this critic, inquired, ' If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe...definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer.' Yet such a definer arose in the disciple of Warton, the Rev. WL Bowles, who has distinguished himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ; otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ; otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude... | |
 | 1825 - 422 pages
...Many years after, Johnson, interrogating this critic, inquired, " If VOL. ii. B CONTROVERSY ON Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe...definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer." Yet such a definer arose in the disciple pf Warton, the Rev. WL Bowles, who recommenced the attack... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 pages
...that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet J otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which will exclude... | |
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After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only... 
