however, justly criticised some passages in these lines:-


"There are whom Heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it:
For wit and judgment ever are at strife--"


It is apparent that wit has two meanings, and that what is wanted,
though called wit, is truly judgment. So far Dennis is undoubtedly
right: but not content with argument, he will have a little mirth,
and triumphs over the first couplet in terms too elegant to be
forgotten. "By the way, what rare numbers are here! Would not one
swear that this youngster had espoused some antiquated muse, who had
sued out a divorce on account of impotence, from some superannuated
sinner; and, having been p--d by her former spouse, has got the gout
in her decrepit age, which makes her hobble so damnably?" This was
the man who would reform a nation sinking into barbarity.

In another place Pope himself allowed that Dennis had detected one
of those blunders which are called "bulls." The first edition had
this line:-


"What is this wit -
Where wanted scorned; and envied where acquired?"


"How," says the critic, "can wit be scorned where it is not? Is not
this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land! The person