Note 132 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
Reading edition
[Much we begin to doubt and much to fear Our sight less trusting as we see more clear.] So pleased at first the tow'ring Alps to try, Filled with ideas of fair Italy, The traveller beholds with cheerful eyes The less'ning vales, and seems to tread the skies.—Pope.
The couplet between brackets is from the manuscript. The next couplet, with a variation in the first line, was transferred to the epistle to Jervas.