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An essay on Mr. Pope's Odyssey : in five dialogues
Spence, Joseph (1699-1768)
1747
Includes indexes and bibliographical references.
An epistle from a nobleman to a doctor of divinity : in answer to a Latin letter in verse. Written from H-----n C---t, Aug. 28, 1733
Hervey, John Hervey Baron (1696-1743); Sherwin, William (1669-1735)
1733
In verse. An attack on Pope. Cf. Dict. of national biography. A doctor of divinity = William Sherwin. Anon., by John Hervey.
Musaeus: a monody to the memory of Mr. Pope, in imitation of Milton's Lycidas
Mason, William (1725-1797); Milton, John (1608-1674)
1747
Anon., by William Mason (ESTC). With a half-title and a final leaf of advertisements of books "constantly to be sold by R Dodsley".
Pope Alexander's supremacy and infallibility examin'd; and the errors of Scriblerus and his man William detected. With the effigies of his holiness and his prime minister, curiously engrav'd on copper
Dennis, John (1657-1734); Burnet, Sir Thomas (1694-1753); Duckett, George (1684-1732)
1729
An anonymous attack on Alexander Pope's "Dunciad variorum", London, 1729. Sometimes attributed (following Pope) to George Duckett and John Dennis, the critic. E.N. Hooker does not think Dennis was i...
Another occasional letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope : wherein the new hero's preferment to his throne, in the Dunciad, seems not to be accepted, and the author of that poem his more rightful claim to it, is asserted : with an expostulatory address to the Reverend Mr. W. W-------n, author of the new preface and adviser in the curious improvements of that satire
Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
1744
Letter dated January 9, 1743-4. Reference is to 1742 ed. of the Dunciad, with notes by William Warburton. Cf. Griffith, R.H. Alexander Pope, 578.
The state dunces : Inscribed to Mr. Pope
Whitehead, Paul (1710-1774)
1733
A "Part II" appeared the same year, but it is not included in Whitehead's Poems, 1777, nor mentioned in the life prefixed to them. "The chief 'State Dunce' is Walpole." -- DNB. Follows the text of...
The Review. A poem. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Litchfield
Lichfield, George Henry Lee earl of (1718-1772)
1745
A satire on politicians, and particularly Pope's patrons. Signatures: A-C2 D1.
Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq : faithfully collected from authentic authors, original manuscripts, and the testimonies of many persons of credit and honour; adorned with the heads of divers illustrious persons, treated of in these memoirs, curiously engrav'd by the best hands... : By William Ayre, esq (v.1)
Ayre, William (fl. 1734-1753); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747)
1745
Title varies slightly.
Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq : faithfully collected from authentic authors, original manuscripts, and the testimonies of many persons of credit and honour; adorned with the heads of divers illustrious persons, treated of in these memoirs, curiously engrav'd by the best hands... : By William Ayre, esq (v.2)
Ayre, William (fl. 1734-1753); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747)
1745
Title varies slightly.
Tit for tat : To which is annex'd, An epistle from a nobleman to a doctor of divinity. In answer to a Latin letter in verse. Also The Review; or, The case fairly stated on both sides. : Wherein is shewn the true cause of the foregoing poems
Hervey, John Hervey Baron (1696-1743); Sherwin, William (1669-1735)
1734
In verse. The first is a satire in reply to Lord Hervey's attack on Alexander Pope, An epistle from a nobleman to a doctor of divinity. Cf. J.V. Guerinot. The third piece is also an attack on Lord...
A view of the necessitarian or best scheme: freed from the objections of M. Crousaz, in his examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on man
Dudgeon, William (fl. 1765)
1739
Signatures: [A]⁴(-[A]4=E1), B-D⁴, E¹. Included in his Philosophical works ([Edinburgh?] 1765). Page numbers given in the text refer to "Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on man", 1739, translat...
The state dunces
Whitehead, Paul (1710-1774)
1733
Second edition. This edition bears no marks that it is not the first, but 8 lines have been added after "While his Eulogiums crucify thy Fame" (p.3 of original edition) and 10 lines after "Britannia...