Zeitung für die elegante Welt, 9. September 1820, Sp. 1406 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=xYZEAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT198&
Original engl.: "I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope and Other Eminent Persons of His Time, by Rev. Joseph Spence. Now first published from the Original Papers, with Notes, and a Life of the Author by Samuel Weller Singer. Edinburgh 1820, p. 54 http://books.google.de/books?id=7vYkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA54. Siehe auch The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Nine Volumes, Complete, Volume the Second. London 1797. p. 403 http://books.google.de/books?id=8EIfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA403