MrPope, his life and times . e publish his Dulness ? he asked Gay. The rogues he mawls will die of themselves inpeace, and so will his friends, and so there will beneither punishment nor reward. Popes reason for delaying the appearance of The Dunciad seems to have been due to hisdesire that so tremendous a satire should have morejustification for its existence than the skits whichhadi already appeared against him. Pie publishedthe third volume of the Miscellanies in March, inthe hope that the personal attacks in The Bathos would draw the various writers ridiculed. Itwas a case of Will you trea
MrPope, his life and times . e publish his Dulness ? he asked Gay. The rogues he mawls will die of themselves inpeace, and so will his friends, and so there will beneither punishment nor reward. Popes reason for delaying the appearance of The Dunciad seems to have been due to hisdesire that so tremendous a satire should have morejustification for its existence than the skits whichhadi already appeared against him. Pie publishedthe third volume of the Miscellanies in March, inthe hope that the personal attacks in The Bathos would draw the various writers ridiculed. Itwas a case of Will you tread on the tail of mycoat ? The satire was, In the main, as legitimate as it And thou ! whose sense, whose humour, and whose rageAt once can teach, dehght, and lash the age,Whether thou choose Cervantes serious laugh and shake in Rabelais easy chair ;Praise courts and monarchs, or extol mankind ;Or thy grieved countrys copper chains unbind ;Attend, whatever title please thine , Drapier, Bickerstaff, or / ?,//.-. •••• / / I>oni a mezzotint l-j- J. Simon after tlie paintiui^ hy M. Dalil, 1727. ALEXANDER POPE AT THE AGE OF 38. Third Volume of the Miscellanies 345 was lively, but there was one section which con-sisted merely of stupid personalities. This dealswith the several kinds of geniuses in The Pro-fund, and the marks and characters of each. Thewriters are compared to various species of birds,fishes, and reptiles, and the initials of their namesin each case are given. Pope afterwards declaredthat he had put the letters at random. Thepoets old enemies appear among them—Dennis,Gildon, and Oldmixon, as porpoises, AmbrosePhilips as a tortoise, Webster and Theobald aseels, Edward Ward and James Moore (afterwardsMoore-Smythe) as frogs. The unfortunate Broome,who had done so much for Pope, signed a falsepostscript, giving up the credit of five books, andfurnished the notes to the Iliad gratis, appearsboth as a parrot and a tortoise, A couplet fro
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