ABSTRACT
This scale is supposed to consist of 20 degrees for each column, of which 19 may be attained in any one qualification, but the 20th was never yet attain’d to.
Genius. Judgment. Learning. Versifications. Chaucer — 16 12 10 14 Spenser — 18 12 14 18 Drayton — – 10 11 16 13 Shakespeare – – 19 14 14 19 Jonson – 16 18 17 8 Cowley – 17 17 15 17 Waller – 12 12 10 16 Fairfax – 12 12 14 13 Otway — 17 10 10 17 Milton — 18 16 17 18 Lee — 16 10 10 15 Dryden – 18 16 17 18 Congreve – 15 16 14 14 Vanbrugh – – 14 15 14 10
Steele – — 10 15 13 10 Addison — 16 18 17 17 Prior — — 16 16 15 17 Swift — — 18 16 16 16 Pope — 18 18 15 19 Thomson — 16 16 14 17 Gay — 14 16 14 16 Butler — 17 16 14 16 Beaumont and Fletcher 14 16 16 12 Hill (Aaron) 16 12 13 17 Rowe — 14 16 15 16 Farquhar — 15 16 10 10 Garth — 16 16 12 16 Southerne — 15 15 11 14 Hughes — 15 16 13 16
By Genius is meant those excellencies that no study or art can communicate: such as elevation, expression, description, wit, humour, passion, &c.
