...greatest possible meaning into a narrow compass." — Leslie Stephen. " He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had nothing left to be forgiven. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...hands, while he considered and reconsidered them. The onlv poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten...

...and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven 2. / For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands, 306 while he considered and reconsidered them. The only poems which can be supposed to have been written...

...punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had nothing left to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces...his hands while he considered and reconsidered them' (Johnson's Life of Pope, Lives 3. 221). ' He is said to have sent nothing to the press till it had...

...especially Lines at a Solemn Music and Lycidas. 143. 20. Pope's compositions. 'He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had nothing left to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands while he considered...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words Bliss In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose [20 education was more scholastic,...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. . . Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgement is cold and...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven." Pope's polished, perfected art represented for Johnson the heights of poetry, and though still unwilling...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven, (in, 119, 111) The literary qualities of this description have, as with Dryden and Milton, moral and...

...and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself . . . He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven" (para. 3o5). The self under construction here is a modern, punitive, disciplined one that is part of...