Note 264 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. (continued 2)
Reading edition
In all Pope's works there cannot be found a couplet so paltry and impertinent as this.—Wakefield.
The construction of the last line is deplorably faulty. "Horace does not suffer more by wits than he suffers by critics" is Pope's meaning, but interpreted by his language, he would be read as asserting that Horace did not suffer more by wrong translations than critics suffered by wrong quotations.