Note 164 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
This seems imitated from Hopkins' Court Prospect:
As far as fair Augusta's buildings reach, Bent, like a bow, along a peaceful beach.—Wakefield.
Cowley's Somerset House:
And here, behold, in a long bending row, How two joint cities make one glorious bow.
Whitehall is just above that circular sweep of the Thames in the midst of which the cities of London and Westminster unite. Pope wrote in the belief that the magnificent design of Inigo Jones for the palace at Whitehall would one day be executed.