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Published by London: printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1740
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Add to basketFolio, pp. 8; blank inner margins a bit chipped, title-page slightly dusty, but a sound copy; disbound. First edition. Are These Things So? was an attack in verse on Sir Robert Walpole, purporting to have been written by Pope, but in fact by James Miller. A flurry of replies quickly followed, of which this poem is one, in the fo…rm of a conversation between George and Frank. The former ends by dismissing the criticisms of the government as trivial: On trifles all their Fury pour, And scratch a Pimple to a Sore. These Tramontanes on Mischief bent, Not worth a solemn Argument: These dear dull Souls I must enjoy; I must, Frank, all my Mirth employ, And stride o'er stated Forms and Rules, To laugh at voluntary Fools. George Spiltimber was a real person, and appears to have been a barrister, admitted to Gray's Inn in 1735; he is commonly listed as having died in 1749, but his name appears in the list of subscribers for Mary Jones's Miscellanies in Verse and Prose, published in 1750. He published two further political poems in 1745. Foxon S654.
