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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... shown that, generally, he was "not the aggressor; and often was atrociously ill used before he re torted." It is to be regretted that this account has been withheld from the public. With Lady Mary, Pope was on friendly terms up to September 15, 1721. This appears from the published correspondence. Before 1728, the rupture had taken place, as appears from the couplet in The Dunciad: "Whence hapless Monsieur much complains at Paris, Of wrongs from Duchesses and Lady Maries." This is an insidious allusion to Lady Mary's gambling transactions with M. Ruzemonde, detailed in Lord AVharncliffe's edition of Lady Mary's Works, and in Carruthers' Life of Pope. The poet himselfpoints out the allusion in a note to the passage in Works, vol. ii., edit. 1735: "This passage," he says, "was thought to allude to a famous lady, who cheated a French wit of 5000/. in the South-Sea year. But the author meant it in general of all bragging travellers, and of all whores and cheats under the name of ladies." This coarse note I have found only in the edition of 1735. Now, had there been any overt offence on the part of the witty and sarcastic lady between 1721 and 1728? Pope, in his letter to Lord Hervey, 1733, states that he had not the least misunderstanding with Lady Mary till after he was the author of his own misfortune by discontinuing her acquaintance. The real question, however, is, had Lady Mary published any sarcasm or lampoon on Pope before he made the offensive allusion to her in The Dunciad Her famous satire (written in conjunction with Lord Hervey) was a reply to a subsequent attack in 1733. With Dennis, Pope was the aggressor, and also with Aaron Hill. N. B. THE LORD CHANCELLORS PURSE. It may not be an uninteresting Note, to re...
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