ESSAY XII. WHETHER GENIUS IS CONSCIOUS OF ITS POWERS
[117]. Bolingbroke. Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1672–1751), statesman, writer and friend of Pope.
Sir William Temple. Diplomatist and essayist (1628–1700).
Sees not itself. Julius Cæsar, I. 2.
A phœnix gazed by all. Paradise Lost, V. 272.
[118]. Materiam superabat opus. Ovid, Met., II. 5.
Our poesy is a gum which issues [oozes]. Timon of Athens, I. 1.
[119]. Invita Minervâ. See ante, note to p. 8.
[120]. The glory, the intuition, the amenity. Lamb’s ‘Lines on the Celebrated Picture by Leonardo da Vinci, called “The Virgin of the Rocks.”’
Through happiness or pains. Pope’s Epistle to Mr. Jervas, l. 68.