Note 1037 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
Garth, Dispensary, i. 175:
His couch a trench, his canopy the skies.—Wakefield.
Pope remembered Isaiah lxvi. 1: "Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool." No sane man could ever pretend that "earth was his footstool," and Pope alone is responsible for the unbecoming misapplication of the prophet's language.