Note 1478 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
In a work of so serious a cast surely such strokes of levity, of satire, of ridicule, as also lines 204, 223, 276, however poignant and witty, are ill-placed and disgusting, are violations of that propriety which Pope in general so strictly observed.—Warton.