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The Augustan Reprint Society
TWO POEMS AGAINST POPE:
Leonard Welsted
Publication Number 114 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California, Los Angeles 1965
GENERAL EDITORS
ADVISORY EDITORS
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
INTRODUCTION
As to the "others" we should remember Mallet's caution that it would be vain,
Flow Welsted, Flow! like thine inspirer, Beer, Tho' stale, not ripe; tho' thin, yet never clear; So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull; Heady, not strong, and foaming tho' not full.
The most curious of the charges is that Pope,
That the late Duke of Buckingham paid any Pension to Charles Gildon, which he took from him since his acquaintance with Mr. P.
That the present Archbishop of Canterbury hath past any Censure on Mr. P.
That Mr. Fn and he ever were at distance on variance with each other.
That the Rev. Mr. Brme ever asserted or complain'd, he was not gratify'd with a competent Sum for his Share in the Odyssey; nay did not own that he thought himself highly paid.
That Mr. Addison or any other but Mr. P. writ, or alter'd, one line of the Prologue to Cato.
Who will name any young Writer, allow'd to have Merit, that hath been personally discourag'd by him; or who hath not received either actual Services, or amicable Treatment from him?
But it is the shrill personal abuse of Pope's deformity and moral obliquity,
The Morals blacken'd when the Writings scape; The libel'd Person, and the pictur'd Shape
It is hoped that both these pamphlets will prove useful to those who have little first-hand knowledge of what his enemies said of Pope and will help to warn the novice of the fatal ease with which we can read "with but a Lust to mis-apply,/ Make Satire a Lampoon, and Fiction, Lye" .
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
ONE
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Occasion'd By
Two Lately Publish'd.
ONE
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Occasion'd By
Two Epistles Lately Published.
THE
PREFACE.
One
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Occasion'd By
Two Lately Publish'd.
NOTES
On the Foregoing
POEM.
'Tis great Delight to laugh at some Mens Ways; But 'tis much greater to give Merit Praise.
Pope.
I'll bound, I'll spring, I'll strike the weaken'd Pole, I'll knock so hard, I'll knock thro' it a Hole.
Second Commandment: "Thou shalt not make the Likeness of any Thing in Heaven above, or on the Earth beneath, or the Waters under the Earth."
And in the End he compares your Majesty to the Sun.
FINIS.
The
POEM.
No Might, no Greatness in Mortality Can Censure 'scape: Back-wounding Calumny The whitest Virtue strikes. What King so strong, Can tye the Gall up in sland'rous Tongue? SHAKESPEAR.
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