_Quotations from Pope._
D***N**R. (p. 38.), gives, as an instance of misquotation, a passage
from Pope, as it appeared in the _Times_, and adds a correction of it.
As my _memory_ suggested a version different from both that of the
_Times_, and the correction of your correspondent, I turned to Pope
(Bowles edition, 1806), and found the passage there, precisely as it is
given from the _Times_. Has your correspondent any authority for his
reading? No various reading of the lines is given by Bowles.
While on the subject of Pope, I will make a note (as I have not seen it
noticed by his commentators), that the well-known line,
"The proper study of mankind is man,"
is literally from Charron (_De la Sagesse_, I. i. ch. 1.)--
"La vraye science et le vray etude de l'homme c'est
l'homme."