Note 258 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. (continued 2)
Reading edition
After ver. 648, in the first edition, came this couplet:
Not only nature did his laws obey, But fancy's boundless empire owned his sway.
Dennis denied that nature obeyed the laws of Aristotle. "The laws of nature," he said, "are unalterable but by God himself." Pope's language is inaccurate.