[1024] This had happened the day before (May 11) in the writ of error in Horne's case (ante, p. 314). Ann. Reg. xii. 181.
[1025] 'To enucleate. To solve; to clear.' Johnson's Dictionary.
[1026] In the original me.
[1027] Pope himself (Moral Essays, iii. 25) attacks the sentiment contained in this stanza. He says:—
'What nature wants (a phrase I must distrust)
Extends to luxury, extends to lust.'
Mr. Elwin (Pope's Works, ii. 462) doubts the genuineness of this suppressed stanza. Montezuma, in Dryden's Indian Emperour, act ii. sc. 2, says:—
'That lust of power we from your Godheads have,
You're bound to please those appetites you gave.'
[1028] 'Antoine Arnauld, surnommé le grand Arnauld, théologien et philosophe, né à Paris le 6 février 1612, mort le 6 août 1694 à Bruxelles.' Nouv. Biog. Gén. iii. 282.
[1029] 'It may be discovered that when Pope thinks himself concealed he indulges the common vanity of common men, and triumphs in those distinctions which he had affected to despise. He is proud that his book was presented to the King and Queen by the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole; he is proud that they had read it before; he is proud that the edition was taken off by the nobility and persons of the first distinction.' Johnson's Works, viii. 278.
[1030] Othello, act iii. sc. 3.