"Roscoe and Croly give _four_ poems on _Gulliver's Travels_. Why does
Mr. Carruthers leave out the third? His edition appears to contain
(besides many additions) all that all previous editors have admitted,
with the exception of the _third_ Gulliver poem, the sixteen additional
verses to Mrs. Blount on leaving town, the verses to Dr. Bolton, and a
fragment of eight lines (perhaps by Congreve); which last three are to
be found in Warton's edition."
The _third_ Gulliver poem was not published with the others by Pope in the
_Miscellanies_. It should, however, have been inserted, as it is
acknowledged by Pope in his correspondence with Swift. The omission must be
set down as an editorial oversight, to be remedied in the next edition. The
verses on Dr. Bolton are assuredly _not_ Pope's; they are printed in Aaron
Hill's _Works_, 1753. See a copious note on this subject in "N. & Q.," Vol.
vii., p. 113. The two other omissions noticed by MR. TEMPLE (with others
unnoticed by him, as the parody on the First Psalm, &c.) were dictated by
the same feeling that prompted the exclusion of the _Imitation of Horace_.
In several of Pope's letters, preserved at Maple Durham, are grossly
indecent and profane passages, which he omitted himself in his printed
correspondence, and which are wholly unfit for publication. The same
oblivion should be extended to his unacknowledged poetical sins.