Note 1098 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
Dugald Stewart observes that everyone must be displeased with this line, because the triviality of the alliteration is at variance with the sublimity of the subject.
Reading edition
Dugald Stewart observes that everyone must be displeased with this line, because the triviality of the alliteration is at variance with the sublimity of the subject.