Note 60 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
Reading edition
Between ver. 25 and 26 were these lines, since omitted by the author:
Many are spoiled by that pedantic throng, Who with great pains teach youth to reason wrong. Tutors, like virtuosos, oft inclined By strange transfusion to improve the mind, Draw off the sense we have, to pour in new; Which yet, with all their skill, they ne'er could do. —Pope.
The transfusion spoken of in the fourth verse of this variation is the transfusion of one animal's blood into another.—Wakefield.