...grandeur and dignity, and at the same time painfully unable to embody the knowledge for which it strives: "Pope had likewise genius; a mind active, ambitious,...still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher; always imaging something greater than it knows, always endeavouring more...

...aim higher. Johnson's most moving instance of this genius is Pope, who whatever his deficiencies had "a mind active, ambitious, and adventurous, always...still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher; always imagining something greater than it knows, always endeavouring 232...

...embodied. Pope's excellence, thus, raises the prospect of a compulsive and dissatisfied mind that is "always investigating, always aspiring; in its widest...still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher; always imagining something greater than it knows, always endeavouring more...