[16] The most important is Churchill’s Rosciad (1761), with the numerous replies which it elicited: the Churchilliad (1761), the Smithfield Rosciad (1761), the Anti-Rosciad (1761), by Thomas Morell (1703–1784), and The Rosciad of Covent Garden (1761) by H. J. Pye (1745–1813). Among other satires of the same class may be mentioned the Smartiad (1752) by Dr. John Hill (1710–1775), with its answer, the severe and effective Hilliad (1752) by Christopher Smart (1722–1771); the Meretriciad (1764) by Arthur Murphy (1727–1806); the Consuliad (1770), a fragment by Chatterton; the Diaboliad (1777), with its sequel, the Diabolady (1777) by William Combe (1741–1823); and finally the Criticisms on the Rolliad, Gifford’s Baviad and Mæviad, the Simpliciad, and the Alexandriad (1805).
[17] The Scandalizade (1750); The Pasquinade (1752) by William Kenrick (1725–1779); The Quackade (1752); The Booksellers (1766); The Art of Rising in the Church (1763) by James Scott (1733–1814); The Senators (1772); and The Tribunal (1787).
[18] A few typical controversial satires of this decade are: The Race (1762) by Cuthbert Shaw (1739–1771); The Tower (1763); The Demagogue (1764) by William Falconer (1732–1769); The Scourge (1765); and The Politician (1766) by E. B. Greene (1727–1788).
[19] Some characteristic examples are the Epistle to Cornbury (1745) by Earl Nugent (1702–1788); the Epistle to William Chambers (1773) and the Epistle to Dr. Shebbeare (1777) by William Mason (1724–1797); and the Epistle to Dr. Randolph (1796), as well as numerous other epistles, by T. J. Mathias.
[20] See Macaulay’s Essay on Horace Walpole, page 35.
[21] An Essay on the Different Styles of Poetry (1713) by Thomas Parnell (1679–1718); The Danger of Writing Verse (1741) by William Whitehead (1715–1785); A Prospect of Poetry (1733); The Perils of Poetry (1766); and The Wreath of Fashion (1780) by Richard Tickell (1751–1793).
[22] The anonymous Manners of the Age (1733); Manners (1738) by Paul Whitehead; The Man of Taste (1733) by James Bramston (1694–1744); the Modern Fine Gentleman (1746) and the Modern Fine Lady (1750) by Soame Jenyns (1703–1787); Fashion (1748) by Joseph Warton (1722–1800); and Newmarket (1751) by Thomas Warton (1728–1790).
[23] Examples are the Essay on Reason (1733) by Walter Harte (1709–1774); the Vanity of Human Enjoyments (1749) by James Cawthorn (1718–1761), the most slavish of all Pope’s imitators; Honour (1737) by John Brown; Advice and Reproof (1747) by Smollett; Of Retired and Active Life (1735) by William Helmoth (1710–1799); Ridicule (1743) by William Whitehead; Taste (1753) by John Armstrong (1709–1779); An Essay on Conversation (1748) by Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702–1771).
[24] Letters, v., 162.
[25] Letters, iv., 485.