England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . f Popes assailantsat this time was the bookseller Curll, who was grosslyattacked in the Dunciad, and who had been thevictim of the poets practical resentment on a formeroccasion. From his shop issued, within two or threemonths, the Popiad, the Curliad, the FemaleDunciad, and several others, in which the privatecharacter of the poet was attacked as freely as hispublic doings. Popes personal appearance, which wasnot prepossessing, was also made the subject of satire; and a quarto pamphlet,enti
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . f Popes assailantsat this time was the bookseller Curll, who was grosslyattacked in the Dunciad, and who had been thevictim of the poets practical resentment on a formeroccasion. From his shop issued, within two or threemonths, the Popiad, the Curliad, the FemaleDunciad, and several others, in which the privatecharacter of the poet was attacked as freely as hispublic doings. Popes personal appearance, which wasnot prepossessing, was also made the subject of satire; and a quarto pamphlet,entitled Pope Alexan-ders Supremacy and In-fallibility examined, isprefaced by an engravingin which his portrait isplaced on the shouldersof a monkey—the per-sonality of the title ofPoet Pug, which wassometimes given to poem called the Mar-tiniad, in allusion to theassumed title of MartinusScriblerus, under whichPope had ushered the Treatise on Sinking inPoetry ^ into the world, gives the following descriptionof his person :— At Twickenham, chronicles remark,There dwelt a little parish clerk^. POET PUG. ATTACKS ON POPE. 125 A peevish wight, full fond of fame,And Martin Scribbler was his name;Meager and wan, and steeple crownd,His visage long, and shoulders crippled corpse two spindle pegsSupport, instead of human legs ;His shrivelld skin, of dusky grain,—A crickets voice, and monkeys brain. We may give the following from Brices WeeklyJournal of May 2, 1729, as an example of the epi-grammatic squibs with which Pope was constantly as-sailed in the newspapers. -4 Receipt against Pope-isk Poetry, Select a wreath of witherd bays. And place it on the brow of P ; Then, as reward for stolen lays,His neck encircle with a this is done, his look will show it,Which he s most like,—a thief or poet.* Pope seems, indeed, to have found few partisans,either among the writers or among the artists ofhis time. Hogarth has introduced him into severalof his compo
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