It furnishes art with all her materials, and without it judgment itself can at best but "steal wisely:" for art is only like a prudent steward that lives on managing the riches of nature. It is the invention that, in different degrees, distinguishes all great geniuses: the utmost stretch of human study, learning, and industry, which masters everything besides, can never attain to this. Nor is it a wonder if he has ever been acknowledged the greatest of poets, who most excelled in that which is the very foundation of poetry. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him, and others may have their pretensions as to particular excellences but his invention remains yet unrivalled. Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever.
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