Note 159 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
Originally thus in the MS.
Let Venice boast her tow'rs amidst the main, Where the rough Adrian swells and roars in vain; Here not a town, but spacious realms shall have A sure foundation on the rolling wave.—Warburton.
This he altered with his usual discernment, on account of the mean conceit in the equivocal use of the word "foundation."—Wakefield.