Westminster unite. Pope wrote in the
belief that the magnificent design of Inigo Jones for the palace at
Whitehall would one day be executed.]

[Footnote 165: Addison's translation of a passage in Claudian on the
imperial palace at Rome:

Thither the kingdoms and the nations come,
In supplicating crowds to learn their doom.
To Delphi less th' inquiring worlds repair.]

[Footnote 166: "Once more," as in the renowned reign of Elizabeth.--HOLT
WHITE.

After holding out a prospect of perpetual peace, Pope conjures up a
future vision of "sueing kings," and "suppliant states," which are the
consequences of war and victory.]

[Footnote 167: This return to the trees of Windsor Forest, his original
subject, is masterly and judicious; and the whole speech of Thames is
highly animated and poetical,--forcible and rich in diction, as it is
copious and noble in imagery.--BOWLES.]

[Footnote 168: Originally thus:

Now shall our fleets the bloody cross display
To the rich regions of the rising day,
Or those green isles, where headlong Titan steeps
His hissing axle in th' Atlantic deeps:
Tempt icy seas, &c.--POPE.

The original lines were rejected, probably as too nearly resembling a
passage in Comus:

And the gilded car of day
His glowing axle doth allay
In the steep Atlantic stream.--BOWLES.]

[Footnote 169: Pope has written "if obscure?" against this line in the
manuscript. It is plain he meant that the trees were converted into
ships, but the language is extravagant.]

[Footnote 170: The red cross upon the Union Jack.]

[Footnote 171: Waller's verses on Tea:

To the fair region where the sun does rise.]

[Footnote 172: "To tempt the sea" is a classical expression, significant
of hazard and resolution. Dryden's Iliad:

What now remains
But that once more we tempt the wat'ry plains.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 173: "Exalt" is an inefficient and prosaic word.--WAKEFIELD.

The word is certainly not "prosaic," for no one in prose would talk of
exalting a sail, but it is "inefficient," just because it is one of
those deviations from common speech, which sound affected.]

[Footnote 174: The whole passage seems a grand improvement from Philips'
Cider, book ii.:

uncontroll'd
The British navy, through the ocean vast,
Shall wave her double cross t' extremest climes
Terrific, and return with od'rous spoils