[79] In the early editions,
That art is best which most resembles her,
Which still presides, yet never does appear.
[80] Dryden's Virgil, Æn. vi. 982:
———one common soul
Inspires, and feeds, and animates the whole.—Wakefield.
[81] So Ovid, exactly, Metam. iv. 287:
causa latet; vis est notissima.—Wakefield.
Duke of Buckingham's Essay on Poetry:
A spirit which inspires the work throughout,
As that of nature moves the world about;
Itself unseen, yet all things by it shown.
[82] In all editions before the quarto of 1743, it was,
There are whom heav'n has blest with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it.