Note 220 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
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Wakefield remarks upon the unhappy effect of "crowns" and "crown" in consecutive lines, and thinks the phrase "some others" in the next verse too mean and elliptical. Soame and Dryden, in their translation of Boileau's Art of Poetry, speak of the "base rivals" who
aspire to gain renown By standing up and pulling others down.