...eighteenth centuries, is to be found in Johnson's Life of Pope: "He had Invention" says Johnson of Pope, "by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, ...and by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known...

...appreciation of particular poems, and in his general estimate of Pope no exaggeration. When he contends that Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constituted genius — invention as displayed in the ' Rape of the Lock ' and in the ' Essay on Criticism,'...

...supremacy. Pope had Genius. likewise genius. . . . S. JOHNSON, Lives of the Poets (Pope), 1779-1781. Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and invention, new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock ; and by which extrinsic and...

...ist alles.84) Pope, sagt Johnson,85) vereinigte in sich alle Eigenschaften, die das Genie ausmachen: He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed and new scenes of imagery displayed; he had Imagination, which 'strongly impresses on the writer's mind and enables him to convey to the...

...as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights '.It was by invention, he said, that ' new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed ' 3 ; and this power not only of inventing new scenes and incidents and displaying new images, but...

...master and a judge. For the qualities that constitute genius are invention, imagination and judgment; invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed; imagination, which strongly impresses on the writer's mind, and enables him to convey to the reader...

...the following was written with an eye to what he and some others have advanced on that subject : " Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock ; or extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject,...

...the following was written with an eye to what he and some others have advanced on that subject : " Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had v/ Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in...

...other hand he couples the Rape of the Lock and the Essay on Criticism as having a kind of invention "by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments...illustrations are connected with a known subject." •' Invention here is little more than inventiveness, ingenuity in finding rhetorical ornaments. Mostly...

...determined', as he says, was a major point of debate. But when in the Life of Pope Johnson designates 'in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius', he expounds ideas current in contemporary discussions along lines that would have seemed distinctly old-fashioned...