MrPope, his life and times . whenTonsons offer became known. I am glad,wrote Wycherley, to find you design your countrybeauty of a Muse shall appear at Court and inpublic to outshine all the farded, lewd, confident,and affected town-dowdies, who are being honouredonly for their shame. While awaiting his introduction to the public Pope occupied himself in making translations from Ovid and Statius, paraphrasing one or two of the Canterbury Tales, and working at his drawing. The greater part of the year was spent at Bin field, but he was occasionally in town for a few weeks at a time, improving h
MrPope, his life and times . whenTonsons offer became known. I am glad,wrote Wycherley, to find you design your countrybeauty of a Muse shall appear at Court and inpublic to outshine all the farded, lewd, confident,and affected town-dowdies, who are being honouredonly for their shame. While awaiting his introduction to the public Pope occupied himself in making translations from Ovid and Statius, paraphrasing one or two of the Canterbury Tales, and working at his drawing. The greater part of the year was spent at Bin field, but he was occasionally in town for a few weeks at a time, improving his acquaintance with the wits and rakes, and leading a life which had the worst effect upon what Wycherley called his little, crazy, tender carcase. Though he lived at home free of charge and his parents allowed him to invite his new friends to Binfield, he found it difficult, with a rapidly increasing acquaintance and new standards of living, to obtain sufficient funds for current expenses from the parental exchequer. Thus. From a mezzotint engraving after the paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller. JACOB TONSON. Life at Binfield 23 early in July 1707 he writes a letter in doggerelverse to Henry Cromwell, beginning : I had to see you some intentBut for a curst impediment,Which spoils full many a good design,That is to say, the want of coin. He paid a visit to Walsh at Abberly Parktowards the end of the month, and probably couldnot afford a stay in town as well. The aboveletter is not worth quoting further, save for thefollowing lines, which contain a biographical hintor two : To end with news, the best I knowIs, Ive been well a week or season of green peas is fled,And artichokes reign in their Allies to bomb Toulon prepare;God save the pretty ladies there !One of our dogs is dead and I, unhappy ! left alone. One of the pleasantest traits in Popes characterwas his love for animals, and there Is a prettylittle passage about a dog in one of his letters toCromw
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