Note 224 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
Reading edition
In the margin of the manuscript Pope has written the passages of Virgil from which he took his expressions. Æn. iii. 56:
quid non mortalia pectora cogis Auri sacra fames?
Geor. i. 37:
Nec tibi regnandi veniat tam dira cupido,
which Dryden translates,
Nor let so dire a thirst of empire move.