"Definer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 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 has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their ...
— Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope • Samuel Johnson |
