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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 70 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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Instead of this couplet, Pope had written in his early manuscript,

They stretch, they sweat, they glow, they shout around; Heav'n trembles, roar the mountains, thunders all the ground.

He was betrayed into this bombast, which his better taste rejected, by the attempt to carry on the hyperbolical strain of Statius.

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