 Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick...  The Lives of the English Poets - Página 289por Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Andrew Bennett - 1994 - 272 páginas
...'invention' suggests an interesting connection with dilation: Johnson defines invention as the means by which 'new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed . . . and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with... | |
 | Tim Milnes - 2003 - 294 páginas
...'all the qualities that constitute genius', invention, being one of these, is given as that activity 'by which new trains of events are formed and new scenes of imagery displayed [.. .]'.'1'4 Johnson's ambivalence reveals how two imaginations were struggling for priority in the... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1907 - 328 páginas
...production, the prose works of Swift. Give a brief account of the one you think most important. 8. " Pope had in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other all the qualities that constitute yenius* He had intention Imagination Judgment." Show what qualities are here assigned to Pope and bring... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 636 páginas
...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,'... | |
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