"There was in the place," says Steele "a gay fellow, half-fuddled, who offered to jump in, and swore though he liked not the liquor, he would have the Toast. He was opposed in his resolution; yet this whim gave foundation to the present honor which is done to the lady we mention in our liquors, who has ever since been called a Toast."
"nobody was angry but Sir George Brown, and he was a good deal so, and for a long time. He could not bear that Sir Plume should talk nothing but nonsense."
[Notes on An Essay on Criticism]
Introduction
The
Essay on Criticism
was the first really important work that Pope gave to the world. He had been composing verses from early boyhood, and had actually published a set of
Pastorals