Chapter I

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From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

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From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

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From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

personal knowledge or information about someone or something

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a component that is added to something to improve it

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

later than; following

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a friendly nation

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

prior to a specified or implied time

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

at all times; all the time and on every occasion

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

having no known name or identity or known source

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

adopted in order to deceive

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

plural of “attack” — (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the month following July and preceding September

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman Emperor Augustus

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

possessive form of “author” — writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

having undesirable or negative qualities

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a relation that provides the foundation for something

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

in the space, time, or range separating two things

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

plural of “boy” — a youthful male person

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a building where prostitutes are available

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

actively or fully engaged or occupied

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

definite but not specified or identified

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

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From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

past form of “circulate” — become widely known and passed on

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

without doubt or question

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

the body of faculty and students of a college

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a friend who is frequently in the company of another

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

past form of “compare” — examine and note the similarities or differences of

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

come or bring to a finish or an end

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

having come or been brought to a conclusion

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

accompanying

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

in an ill-natured manner

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

(plural) the deepest and most remote part

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the quality of being unlike or dissimilar

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a comic verse of irregular measure

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

plural of “editor” — a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

resulting in education

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

an opposing military force

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

plural of “engraving” — a print made from an engraving

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

plural of “example” — an item of information that is typical of a class or group

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

plural of “find” — a productive insight

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

plural of “form” — the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born in 1912)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

informal terms for a meal

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

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From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

incapable of being placated

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

resulting from one's intentions

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the act of beginning something new

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

habitual

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

used when the thing doing the action is also its object

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a son who has the same first name as his father

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

the month following June and preceding August

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

ridicule with satire

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

past form of “launch” — set up or found

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a written message addressed to a person or organization

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a room where books are kept

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

of or relating to or characteristic of literature

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

plural of “life” — a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

lowest in rank or importance

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

most important element

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization)

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a recognition of meritorious service

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

laborer who works in a mine

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a midwestern state

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a form of address for a man

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

near in time or place or relationship

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

not ever; at no time in the past or future

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

possessive form of “nobody” — a person of no influence

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

known widely and usually unfavorably

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

injurious to physical or mental health

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a small book usually having a paper cover

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

plural of “pamphlet” — a small book usually having a paper cover

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

an actor's portrayal of someone in a play

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a geometric element that has position but no extension

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the head of the Roman Catholic Church

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

possessive form of “pope” — the head of the Roman Catholic Church

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

a representation by picture or portraiture

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

United States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff; later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush (born 1937)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

concerned with actual use or practice

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

-ing form of “present” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a university town in central New Jersey

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

ordinary writing as distinguished from verse

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

prepared and printed for distribution and sale

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

plural of “quarrel” — an angry dispute

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

past form of “reach” — reach a destination, either real or abstract

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

past form of “reissue” — print anew

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

in a round manner

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

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From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

Identical; not different.

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

(Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

foul-mouthed or obscene abuse

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

moderate to inferior in quality

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

a person who is head of an administrative department of government

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

past form of “suggest” — make a proposal, declare a plan for something

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

in or at that place or location

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

painstakingly careful and accurate

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

in spite of the fact that

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

a more or less definite period of time now or previously present

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

inflected form of “tell” — express in words

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course

From this reading Here Hervey finds examples of "the difference between verbal and practical virtue" in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly.

the body of faculty and students at a university

From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

communicated in the form of words

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

literature in metrical form

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

plural of “verse” — literature in metrical form

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

Moral excellence and goodness of character; the highest human attainment in Stoic philosophy.

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

morally excellent

From this reading In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope's true character and his assumed _persona_ of the "virtuous man," and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack.

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

any period of seven consecutive days

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

at the time that

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Lord Hervey's verses, _The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author's prose pamphlet (_A Letter to Mr. C--b--r, On his Letter to Mr. P----._) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber's advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "_a second-rate Poet_, a _bad Companion_, a _dangerous Acquaintance_, an _inveterate, implacable Enemy_, _nobody's Friend_, a _noxious Member of Society_, and _a thorough bad Man_."

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From this reading _Introduction by_ A. J. SAMBROOK George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative.

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel--this on the basis of the story told in the notorious _Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope_, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court--by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber's ally--and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.