Note 1033 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
Verbatim from Bolingbroke: "Men would be angels, and we see in Milton that angels would be gods."—Warton.
Sir Fulk Greville, "Works, 1633, p. 73:
Men would be tyrants, tyrants would be gods."—Hurd.