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He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery are displayed, as in The Rape of the Lock, and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism; he had Imagination, which strongly impresses on the writer's mind and enables him to convey to the reader the various forms of nature, incidents of life, and energies of passion, as in his Eloisa, Windsor Forest, and the johnson on Language 29 Ethick Epistles; he had Judgement, which selects from life or nature what the present purpose requires, and, by separating the essence of things from its concomitants, often makes the representation more powerful than the reality; and he had colours of language always before him ready to decorate his matter with every grace of elegant expression, as when he accommodates his diction to the wonderful multiplicity of Homer's sentiments and descriptions.

It would perhaps be more accurate to say 'distinguisherl from it': Johnson's actual words are that in his history of the Turks, [Knolles] has displayed all the excellencies that narration can admit. His stile, though somewhat obscured by time, and sometimes vitiated by false wit, is pure, nervous, elevated, and clear. (Rambler, no. 122) It is of some interest that the quality of 'nervousness' was evidently discoverable in Johnson's own work: Shenstone and Hawkins speak approvingly of his 'nervous' style.

One thing at least is beyond reasonable doubt, that both the views of Sprat and of Johnson in this matter are to be seen and understood against the background of a particular tradition of prose-writing, that of the so-called genus humile. 30 This developed in classical 48 Johnson on Language antiquity as a reaction against the kind of elaborate and ornamental manner of writers such as Gorgias and Cicero. When this style was widely imitated in the seventeenth century, the most prestigious authority held up for imitation was Seneca.

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