Yet with this difference might observers find Some kindred powers and features of the mind. A love of honour in both spirits ruled, But here by temper, there by trouble cool’d; Their favourite objects, studies, themes, pursuits, Had various beauties, merits, ends, and fruits. (O.M.)
instead of ll. 63-70:
Joel nor time nor seasons could command, He took his comforts as they came to hand; Nor came they often, nor delay’d so long, That they were habits either weak or strong; What seem’d habitual was the urgent force Of stern necessity that shaped his course. (O.M.)
Book III.
Instead of ll. 7-14:
“Oh! there’s a wicked little world in schools, Where mischief suffers and oppression rules; Where mild, quiescent children oft endure What a long placid life shall fail to cure; Where virtuous boys, who shrink from early sin, Meet guilty rogues, who love to draw them in, Who take a pleasure at their just surprise, Who make them wicked, and proclaim them wise.” (O.M.)
instead of ll. 23-34:
“Behold him now, without the least pretence To such command——behold him five years hence; Mix’d in the world, his interest in his sight, How smooth he looks, his language how polite, No signs of anger, insult, scorn are seen; The address is mild, the temper is serene; His fiery passions are resign’d and still, They yield to reason, or obey his will. But are they dead?—Not so: should he attain The wish’d-for fortune, they will live again; Then shall the Tyrant be once more obey’d, And all be Fags, whom he can make afraid.” (O.M.)
instead of ll. 90-7:
“But when he sits in judgment, and decrees What men should rule us, and what books should please, And thus the merit of a critic gains, Only for blowing out a Frenchman’s brains, I must demur, and in my mind retrace The accountant Hector, and his rueful face; But on he blunders! thinking he is wise, Who has much strength, no matter where it lies.” (O.M.)