...Boileau, Dryden, and Walsh. These were some of the qualities that prompted Johnson to note that the poem "displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety...such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning as is not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience" (in, 94). In the "Life of Cowley,"...

...propriety of digression" (3:228-29); and earlier in the "Life of Pope" he had described it as a work "which displays such extent of comprehension, such...attained by the maturest age and longest experience" (3:94—95). 23. Cf. Stein Haugom Olsen, responding to the concept of "community" by reference to the...

...Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year (1709) was written the Essay on Criticism; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such...attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards... Not long after, Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock, the...

...Johnson as displaying such extent of comprehension, nicety of distinction, acquaintance with mankind, and knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and experience. His translation of Homer is allowed by the learned to be the best which has been produced....