Note 1166 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
"Passions that court an aim" is surely a strange expression.—Warton.
For "court" Pope had at first written "boast."
Reading edition
"Passions that court an aim" is surely a strange expression.—Warton.
For "court" Pope had at first written "boast."