[Footnote 33: These two lines have been quoted as the most smooth and
mellifluous in our language; and they are supposed to derive their
sweetness and harmony from the mixture of so many iambics. Pope himself
preferred the following line to all he had written, with respect to
harmony:
Lo, where Maeotis sleeps, and hardly flows.--WARTON.
Dryden in his Annus Mirabilis:
A constant trade-wind will securely blow,
And gently lay us on the spicy shore.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 34: In the MS.: