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Note by A Milnes to As An Author a chapter of The Life Of Pope

This is the reading of all editions prior to that of 1743. The couplet as altered by Pope now stands:—

'Some to whom Heav'n in wit has been profuse
Want as much more to turn it to its use.' 1. 80.

But Warburton well observes that this has only magnified the fault.

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