text:  The spirit and sweetness of the verse the lucid and vivid expression the pregnant brevity of the meanings the marrying of ardent and lofty poetical imagings to moral sentiments and reflections of which every bosom is the birth-home the pious will of the argument which humbles the proud and rebellious human intellect under the absolute rectitude and benevolence of the Deity--nor least of all the pleasure of receiving easily as in a familiar speech thoughts that _were_ high and _might be_ abstruse that at all events wore a profound and philosophical air--with strokes intervening of a now playful now piercing but always adroit wit--and with touches here and there strewn between of natural painting and of apt unsought pathos--these numerous and excellent qualifications met upon the subject of all subjects nearest to all--MAN--speedily made the first great original serious writing of Pope a textbook and a manual for its branch of ethico-theosophy in every house where there were books in England