His commentator, Dr. Hurd, remarks in a spirit that endears him to the reader, "Innocent, he means, in comparison with wars on his own kind."—Wakefield.
[163] The fifty new churches.—Pope.
[164] This seems imitated from Hopkins' Court Prospect:
As far as fair Augusta's buildings reach,
Bent, like a bow, along a peaceful beach.—Wakefield.
Cowley's Somerset House:
And here, behold, in a long bending row,
How two joint cities make one glorious bow.
Whitehall is just above that circular sweep of the Thames in the midst of which the cities of London and Westminster unite. Pope wrote in the belief that the magnificent design of Inigo Jones for the palace at Whitehall would one day be executed.
[165] Addison's translation of a passage in Claudian on the imperial palace at Rome:
Thither the kingdoms and the nations come,
In supplicating crowds to learn their doom.
To Delphi less th' inquiring worlds repair.
[166] "Once more," as in the renowned reign of Elizabeth.—Holt White.