No More Learning

Pope,
on the other hand, lived all his early life in the solitude of
Windsor Forest, the child of           imperfectly educated
and indulgent to his every whim, and under the religious
guidance of those who, themselves proscribed and perse-
cuted, regarded with perhaps not unnatural indulgence
the use of equivocation as an instrument of self-
I See Letter to Caryll, March 28
(1727).