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gether in any book of Homer with justice to the Poet, and yet he dares reproach his fellow-writers with not understanding Greek 9. He has ftuck fo little to his Original as to have his knowledge in Greek called in queftion. I fhould be glad to know which it is of all Homer's Excellencies which has fo delighted the Ladies, and the Gentlemen who judge like Ladies .

But he has a notable talent at Burlesque; his genius flides fo naturally into it, that he hath burlesqued Homer without defigning it '.

Mr. POPE trick'd his Subscribers.

"Tis indeed fomewhat bold, and almoft prodigious, for a fingle man to undertake fuch a work: But 'tis too late to diffuade by demonstrating the madness of the Project. The Subfcribers expectations have been raised in proportion to what their Pockets have been drained of ". Pope has been concerned in Jobs, and hired out his fellers W.

Name to Book

• Names bestowed on Mr. POPE.

An APE] Let us take the initial letter of his Chriftian name, and initial and final letters of his

4 Daily Jour. April 23, 1728. * Suppl. to the Profund, Pref. • Oldmixon, Essay on Criticism, p. 66. " Homerides, p. 1. &c.

t Dennis's Remarks, p. 28.

British Journ, Nov. 25, 1727.

with-None but Apish and Papish brats will heed him.

An Ass.] A camel will take upon him no more burden than is fufficient for his ftrength, but there is another beaft that crouches under all a.

A FROG.] Poet Squab endued with Poet Maro's Spirit! an ugly, croaking kind of Vermin, which would fwell to the bulk of an Ox b.

A COWARD] A Clinias or a Damætas, or a man of Mr. Dryden's own Courage c.

A KNAVE.] Mr. Dryden has heard of Paul, the Knave of Jefus Chrift: And if I mikaste not, I've read fomewhere of John Dryden, Servant to his Majefty d

A FOOL.] Had he not been fuch a felf-conceited Fool -Some great Poets are positive Blockheads f. A THING.] So little a Thing as Mr. Dryden 8.

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furname, viz. APE, and they give you the fame Idea of an Ape as his Face*, &c.

An Ass.] It is my duty to pull off the Lion's skin from this little Afs y.

A FROG.] A fquab fhort Gentleman - a little creature that, like the Frog in the Fable, fwells, and is angry that it is not allowed to be as big as an Ox z.

A COWARD.] A lurking-way-laying coward ".

A KNAVE.] He is one whom God and nature have marked for want of common honesty b.

A FOOL.] Great Fools will be christened by the names of great Poets, and Pope will be called Homer c.

A THING.] A little abject Thing .

* Dennis, Daily Journal, May 11, 1728.

Rem. on Hom. Pref.

z Dennis's Rem, on a Char. of Mr. • Dennis Rem. on Homer p. 37.

the Lock, Pref. p. 9.

b Ibid.

Dennis's the Rape of

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BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, i. 104. ii. 268.
Befaleel Morris, ii. 126. iii. 168.

Banks, i. 146.

Broome, ibid.

Bond, ii. 126.

Brown, iii. 28.

Bladen, iv. 560.

Budgel, Efq. ii. 397.

Bentley, Richard, iv. 201.

Bentley, Thomas, ii. 205.

Boyer, Abel, ii. 413.

Bland, a Gazetteer, i. 231.

Breval, J. Durant, ii. 126, 238.

Benlowes, iii. 21.

Bavius, ibid.

Burmannus, iv. 237.

Benson, William, Efq. iii. 325. iv. 110.

Burgerfdick, iv. 198.

Boeotians, iii. 50.

Bruin and Bears, i. 101.

Bear and Fiddle, i. 224.

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CIBBER, Colley, Hero of the Poem, paffim.
Cibber jun. iii. 139. 326.

Caxton William, i. 145.

Curll, Edm. i. 40. ii. 3. 58. 167, &c.

Cooke, Thomas, ii. 138.

Concanen, Matthew, ii. 299.

Centlivre, Sufannah, ii. 411.

Cæfar in Ægypt, i. 251.

Chi Ho-am-ti, emperor of China, iii. 75.
Crouzaz, iv. 198.

Codrus, ii. 144.

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DE FOE, Daniel, i. 103. ii. 147.

De Foe, Norton, ii. 415.

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