Note 181 — BOOK IV—MODERN LIFE (continued 2)

Here are verses like Pope, very beautiful and false: "And havock loath so much the waste of time, She scarce had left an uncommitted crime, One hour beheld him since the tide he stemm'd, Disguised, discover'd, conquering, ta'en condemn'd, A chief on land, an outlaw on the deep, Destroying, saving, prison'd, and asleep!"