Note 53 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
Reading edition
Pope borrowed this idea from the passage he quotes at ver. 179, where Chaucer describes Statius as standing
Upon an iron pillar strong That painted was, all endelong, With tigers' blood in every place.
Reading edition
Pope borrowed this idea from the passage he quotes at ver. 179, where Chaucer describes Statius as standing
Upon an iron pillar strong That painted was, all endelong, With tigers' blood in every place.