REPLY1849
Quotations from Pope
By F.F.B.
D***N**R. (p. 38.), gives, as an instance of misquotation, a passage from Pope, as it appeared in the Times, and adds a correction of it. As my memory suggested a version different from both that of the Times, and the correction of your correspondent, I turned to Pope (Bowles edition, 1806), and found the passage there, precisely as it is given from the Times. Has your correspondent any authority for his reading? No various reading of the lines is given by Bowles. While on the subject of Pope, I will make a note (as I have not seen it noticed by his commentators), that the well-known line, "Th…