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TO
Mr. A. POPE,
Occasionâ——d By
ONE
EPISTLE 1
EPISTLE
TO
Mr. A. POPE,
Occasionâ——d By
Dryden.
LONDON:
Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane.
[Price One Shilling.]
THE
EPISTLE 2
PREFACE.
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, endeavourâ——d something to his
Disadvantage.
This Assertion is by no means true, as I shall immediately shew; if it were true, it might indeed bear some
Weight, but however with this Distinction, that the Reports of private vi Conversation, brought to him by such
Emissaries, as belong to him, are not always to be believed, and that no Attack in Print upon a Manâ——s Poetical
Character, ought to be repaid by Lampoon and Virulence upon the Moral Character of his Antagonist: Every
Person has a Right to determine upon the Talents of Writers, particularly of one, who appears in Publick only
to gratify the two worst Appetites, that disgrace Human Nature, I mean Malice and Avarice; and sure no Man
deserves a violent Injury to his Reputation, as a Gentleman, because perhaps at a Distance of several Years
since he might have said, that Mr. Pope had nothing in him Original as a Writer, that Mr. Tickel greatly
excelled him in his Translation of Homer, and many of his Contemporaries in other Branches of Writing, and
that he is infinitely inferior to Mr. Phillips in Pastoral: And yet such Arguments or Apologies as these have
been used by himself, or his Tea-Table Cabals, for calling Gentlemen Scoundrels, Blockheads, Gareteers, and
Beggars,: If he can transmit them to Posterity under such Imputations, he is a bad Man; if he cannot, he is a
bad Writer: I believe, that he would rather suffer under the first Character, than the last: But before I have
done with him, I will make a very strict Inquiry into both.
In the mean time I shall shew the Reader, in general, the Falshood of his main Pretence, that he has meddled
with no one, that had not before hurt him, and in this View, thoâ—— I should be ashamed of being too serious in a
Controversy of this Sort, I think it proper to acquaint the Town with the original Design of the Dunciad, and
the real Reasons of its Production. This Piece, which has been honourâ——d by Booksellers of Quality, contains
only the Poetical Part of Dulness, extracted from a Libel, callâ——d, The Progress of it, and which included
several other vii Branches of Science, and perhaps some of those Gentlemen, who have in the warmest
Manner asserted the Cause of the Dunciad, might have seen a Publication of a Work, upon the Death of this
Writer, in which no past Friendship could have screenâ——d them from Lampoon for any Pretences to excel in
any Science whatever: It appears, therefore, that he was teazâ——d into a Publication of these Cantos, which
regarded the Writers of the Age, by some Attacks, that were made upon him about that Time: We must refer
to a Miscellany of Poems published by Him and Swift, to which is prefixâ——d, An Essay on the Profund, to
consider if those Attacks were justifiable; Mr. Dean Swift never saw the Profund, till made publick, and Dr.
Arburthnot, who originally sketchâ——d the Design of it, desired that the Initial Letters of Names of the
Gentlemen abused might not be inserted, that they might be A or B, or Do or Ro, or any thing of that Nature,
which would make this Satire a general one upon any dull Writers in any Age: This was refused by Pope, and
he chose rather to treat a Set of Gentlemen as Vermin, Reptiles, &c. at a Time when he had no Provocation to
do so, when he had closed his Labours, finishâ——d his great Subscriptions, and was in a fashionable Degree of
Reputation: Several Gentlemen, who are there ranked with the dullest Men, or dullest Beasts, never did appear
in Print against him, or say any thing in Conversation which might affect his Character: Some Replies, which
were made to the Profund, occasioned the Publication of the Dunciad, which was first of all begun with a
general Malice to all Mankind, and now appears under an Excuse of Provocations, which he had received,
after he himself had struck the first Blow in the above-mentioned Miscellanies.
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I cannot indeed say much in Praise of some Performances, which appearâ——d against him, and am sorry that
Voluntiers enterâ——d into the War, whom I could wish to have been only Spectators: But the Cause became so
general, that some Gentlemen, who never aimâ——d at the Laurel, grew Poets merely upon their being angry:
A Militia, in Case of publick Invasion, may perhaps be thought necessary, but yet one could always wish for
an Army of regular Troops: I should not have touched upon this Circumstance, but to obviate some
Imputations, which he had suggested, of my Writing several Pieces, which I never heard of, till I saw them
with the rest of the Town: But these Suggestions shall be considered in the Preface to the next Epistle, in
which, among other Things, I intend to state several Matters of Fact, in Contradiction to the Notes of the
Dunciad, particularly as they concern the Writers of the following Poem.
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ONE
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EPISTLE
TO
Mr. A. POPE,
Occasionâ——d By
[10]
* A Translator of Homer.
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â—¡ Sir W. Y.
[12]
â— Lady M. W. M.
[13]
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[16] â—— The Characters left out here may perhaps be inserted in some future Edition of this Poem.
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And gives his Foes his Fame, and bears their Sins;
* The Phrases distinguished here in Italics, are truly quoted from P——pe; and the others in
Company with them, ought to be in no other Company.
[18]
[20]
[21]
NOTES
On the Foregoing
NOTES 13
POEM.
(a) If Noble B———m,
THE late Duke of Buckingham! who made that fine Alteration of the Tragedy of Julius Cæsar from
Shakespeare, and who is said by Mr. Pope to have bestowâ——d the finest Praise upon Homer that he ever
received, in the following Lines;
He has also printed a Copy of Verses in Praise of Pope, which were returned by another in Praise of his
Grace. There is so great a Similitude in the Stile of these Writers, that the Reader, I think, need not doubt their
Sincerity in admiring each other.
[22]
D—— of B——.
Pope.
Charles Gildon, dismissâ——d from the D——â——s Pension and Favour, on Account of his
Obstinacy in refusing to take the Oaths to P—peâ——s Supremacy.
P—peâ——s Reputation for versifying is a vulgar Error, founded only on discreet Theft: Half a Line
from Mr. Drydenâ——s Conquest of Mexico, and another from his Translation of Virgil, have seemingly
made tolerable Music, when joinâ——d in his Works; but Music of the Morocco Kind, which has but one
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Note.
Mr. Wycherley subscribed to a Compliment (some say, before his Death) upon P—peâ——s Pastorals,
in which he says, his Arcadia speaks the Language of the Mall, but does not explain, whether he means at
Noon or Night. I do not agree with what Mr. Wycherley is supposed to have writ of him, but I do with what he
certainly said of him, viz. That he was not able to make a Suit of Cloaths, but could perhaps turn an old Coat.
The Reverend Doctor Edward Young, who, in this Quarrel of the great contending Powers in Poesy, has been
courted by all Sides: But some late Incidents give a Suspicion, that he has privately acceded to the Treaty of
Twickenham.
[23]
Mr. Gay, not thought to be the entire Author of the Beggarâ——s Opera, and ordered to own Three Hours
after Marriage.
Gilbert Pickering Rich. A great Admirer of P—pe, eminent for his Translation of Horace, which can
be equallâ——d by nothing but P—peâ——s translating of Homer. He concludes the first Ode by
giving (sublimi feriam sidera vertice) in these Words;
Second Commandment: â——Thou shalt not make the Likeness of any Thing in Heaven above, or on the
Earth beneath, or the Waters under the Earth.â——
In the Rape of the Lock, Belinda and the Sun are very often said to be very much alike, which occasionâ——d
two Lines in Praise of that Poem, written by a Friend of Mr. Pope;
Monsieur Boileau, speaking of the Poetasters of his Nation, in a Poem to the King, makes this Comparison the
Consummation of Dulness;
[24]
The Reverend Mr. B——me, who translated a great Part of Homer, and construed the Rest: N.B.
A half-paid Poet is oftentimes the Occasion of an unpaid Taylor.
These Lines are a Parody of a famous Passage in the Tragedy of Phædra and Hyppolitus.
FINIS.
THE
BLATANT-BEAST.
POEM.
What is that Blatant-Beast? Then he replyâ——d.
Shakespear.
LONDON:
THE
BLATANT-BEAST. 17
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BLATANT-BEAST
POEM.
[4]
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(5) B
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(6)
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(7)
[8]
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[9] C
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FINIS.
(a) It is surely allowable to treat a Man after this manner who abuses all others, and to make this just
Reflexion, since in his new Dunciad he not only calls Mummius a Fool, but uses this filthy
Expression—who stinks above the Ground.
(b) See this farther explained in the ingenious Dialogues of Sawney and Colley.
(c) Thoâ—— he was informed that Wreck was improper, yet he was resolvâ——d it should be inscribâ——d,
because the Nonsense was in his Edition of Shakespear.
(d) When he sent his Homer to his Acquaintance for their Emendations, it was written on the Back of the
Letters of his Correspondents, whether of Business, Complement or Secrecy. A shameful Instance of Avarice
and Treachery!
(g) He writ a vile Lampoon on Mr. Addison, and then in a Preface owns, he deserves Respect from every
Lover of Learning.
PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
FINIS. 26
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17. Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709).
18. â——Of Genius,â—— in The Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hillâ——s Preface
to The Creation (1720).
1949-1950
22. Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and two Rambler papers (1750).
1950-1951
1951-1952
31. Thomas Gray, An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard (1751); and The Eton College Manuscript.
1952-1953
1954-1955
1958-1959
1959-1960
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93. John Norris, Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Callâ——d, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(1690).
95. An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding (1751).
1962-1963
100. Simon Patrick, A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude Men (1662).
1963-1964
104. Thomas Dâ——Urfey, Wonders in the Sun, or, the Kingdom of the Birds (1706).
105. Bernard Mandeville, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725).
106. Daniel Defoe, A Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees (1709).
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