 A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted...  Rambles by Rivers: The Thames - Page 129by James Thorne - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
..."£.« deavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun, but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...£. deavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish' or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun, but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...edition. R. voured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation wag requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...edition. R. voured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...endeavoured to persuade bis friends and himself, that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto }f not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded. A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of .an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men... | |
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