[Footnote 15: Rev. W. Elwin, in his edition of Pope's Works, II. 224, says: "The authenticity of the Latin letters has usually been taken for granted, but I have a strong belief that they are a forgery.... It is far more likely that they are the fabrication of an unconcerned romancer, who speaks in the name of others with a latitude which people, not entirely degraded, would never adopt towards themselves. The suspicion is strengthened when the second party to the correspondence, the chief philosopher of his generation, exhibits the same exceptional depravity of taste."--Tr.] [Footnote 16: "Vale, unice."] [Footnote 17: Pope's Works, ed. Elwin; "Eloisa to Abelard," II. 245, lines 141-160.] [Footnote 18: Ibid. II. 240, lines 51-58. "Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banished lover, or some captive maid; They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires, The virgin's wish without her fears impart, Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart, Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole."] [Footnote 19: Ibid. II. 249, lines 207-222.] [Footnote 20: Ibid. 255, line 317.] [Footnote 21: "Eloisa to Abelard," II. 254, lines 297-302.] [Footnote 22: M. Guillaume Guizot.] [Footnote 23: Goethe sings: "Liebe sei vor alien Dingen, Unser Thema, wenn wir singen."] [Footnote 24: See his "Epistle of the Characters of Women." According to Pope, this character is composed of love of pleasure and love of power.] [Footnote 25: "Rape of the Lock," c. V. 181, line 141.] [Footnote 26: Ibid. c. II. 153, lines 37-42.] [Footnote 27: Ibid. c. IV. 169, line 52.] [Footnote 28: Ibid. c. II. 156, line 107.] [Footnote 29: Pope's Works, "The Dunciad," bk. I.] [Footnote 30: Ibid. bk. II.] [Footnote 31: "The Dunciad," bk. II.] [Footnote 32: "The Dunciad," the end.] [Footnote 33: Pope's Works, I. 352; "Windsor Forest," line 211. "Oft in her glass the musing shepherd spies The headlong mountains and the downward skies, The wat'ry landscape of the pendant woods, And absent trees that tremble in the floods."] [Footnote 34: Ibid. I. 347; "Windsor Forest," lines 111-118.] [Footnote 35: Ibid. II. 154; "The Rape of the Lock," c. 2, lines 47-68.] [Footnote 36: Pope's Works, II. 160, "The Rape of the Lock," c. 3, 160, lines 37-44.] [Footnote 37: "Peins-moi légèrement l'amant léger de Flore, Qu'un doux ruisseau murmure en vers plus doux encore."] [Footnote 38: A tale of J. J. Rousseau, in which he tries to depict a philosophical clergyman.--Tr.] [Footnote 39: The "Théodicée" was written in French, and published in 1710.--Tr.] [Footnote 40: These words are taken from the "Design of an Essay on Man."] [Footnote 41: Pope's Works, II.; "An Essay on Man," Ep. II. 375, lines 1-18.] [Footnote 42: Prior's Works, ed. Gilfillan, 1851: "In the remotest wood and lonely grot, Certain to meet that worst of evils, thought."]