Through life's long dream new prospects entertain.
[1260] MS.:
Life's prospects alter ev'ry step we gain,
And Nature gives no vanity in vain.
[1261] See further of the use of this principle in man, Epist. 3, ver. 121, 124, 133, 143, 199, etc., 269, etc., 316, etc. And Epist. 4, ver. 353 and 363.—Pope.
[1262] MS.:
Confess one comfort ever will arise.
[1263] Bolingbroke, Fragment 53: "God is wise and man a fool."
[1264] In several editions in quarto,
Learn, Dulness, learn! "The Universal Cause," etc.—Warburton.
[1265] The "one end" is the good of the whole.