Far more is left to the individual idiosyncrasy.

But it does not at all follow, and in fact it is quite untrue that the distinction which turns on an apparently insignificant element is therefore unimportant.

The value of all good work ultimately depends on touches so fine as to elude the sight.

And the proof is that although Pope was so constantly imitated, no later and contemporary writer succeeded in approaching his excellence.

Young, of the _Night Thoughts_, was an extraordinarily clever writer and talker, even if he did not (as one of his hearers asserts) eclipse Voltaire by the brilliance of his conversation.
Young's satires show abundance of wit, and one may not be able to say at a glance in what they are inferior to Pope.