[1484] The "boy and man makes an individual" is not grammar.
[1485] Thus till the edition of 1743:
For riches, can they give, but to the just,
His own contentment, or another's trust?
[1486] We see in the world, alas! too many examples of riches giving repute and trust, content and pleasure to the worthless and profligate.—Warton.
[1487] Dryden:
Let honour and preferment go for gold,
But glorious beauty isn't to be sold.
The MS. adds:
Were health of mind and body purchased here,
'Twere worth the cost; all else is bought too dear.
[1488] The man, that is, who is the lover of human kind, and the object of their love.
[1489] No rational believer in Providence ever did suppose that to have less than a thousand a year was a mark of God's hatred, or ever doubted that the sufferings of good men in this life were consistent with the dispensations of wisdom and mercy. Pope began by undertaking to prove that happiness was independent of externals, and drops into the separate and indubitable proposition that earthly happiness and the blessing of God are not dependent upon the possession of a thousand a year.