[22.] See Daniel A. Fineman, “The Case of the Lady ‘Killed’ by Alexander Pope,” MLO, XII (1951), 137-149. Sutherland in his continuation of Pope’s note confuses the two charges.
[23.] For the debate over the Latin inscription see Twickenham, VI. 395-396, and The Gentleman’s Magazine, XI, 105.
[24.] See Pope’s note to l. 319 of the Epistle to Arbuthnot.
[25.] Dennis, as far back as 1716, in A True Character of Mr. Pope, pp. 10-11, had used the metaphor. So had An Epistle To the Egregious Mr. Pope (1734), pp. 15-16.
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ONE EPISTLE TO Mr. A. POPE, Occasion’d By Two Epiſtles Lately Publiſhed. Spiteful he is not, tho’ he writ a Satire, For still there goes some Thinking to Ill-Nature. Dryden. LONDON: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane. [Price One Shilling.] |
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THE indecent Images, and the frequent and bad Imitations of the Classics in the Dunciad, have occasioned several just Observations upon so new and coarse a Manner of Writing: I shall wave this Topic at present, and only regard the most plausible Insinuation in Favour of this Author; which is, that he never begun an Attack upon any Person, who had not before, either in Print or private Conversation, endeavour’d something to his Disadvantage.