| 1820 - 590 pages
...years after he wrote it. ' — Pope. ' The design of the Memoirs of Scriblerus, was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the. character...dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in eaQh. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age — Lord Oxford, the Bishop of... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 pages
...both in point of wit and erudition, than Dr. Arbuthnot to promote the object of the society, which was " to ridicule all the false tastes in learning,...every art and science, but injudiciously in each." Political animosities, and the absence of some of their members, soon terminated the meetings of the... | |
| david william - 1820 - 564 pages
...years after he wrote it. ' — Pope. ' The design of the Memoirs of Scriblerus, was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character...; that had dipped into every art and science, but inju. diciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age — Lord Oxford,... | |
| Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...both in point of wit and erudition, than Dr. Arbuthnot to promote the object of the society, which was " to ridicule all the false tastes in learning,...every art and science, but injudiciously in each." Political animosities, and the absence of some of their members, soon terminated the meetings of the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 pages
...Charlatanerie des Savans of Menken. Warton. THE design of this work, as stated by Pope himself, is to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under...every art and science, but injudiciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age ; Lord Oxford, the Bishop of Rochester,... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 606 pages
...Charlatanerie des Savans of Menken. Warton. THE design of this work, as stated by Pope himself, is to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under...every art and science, but injudiciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age; Lord Oxford, the Bishop of Rochester,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...works, wa? chiefly, if not wholly, written by Arbuthnot. The design of this work, as stated by Pope, is = l 6 eQ q ÈN) d A q ~= b who had dipped into every art and science but injudiciously in each. Cervantes was the model of the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1831 - 384 pages
...printed. The design of this satire, says Spence, from the information of Pope, " was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character...every art and science, but injudiciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age : Lord Oxford, the Bishop, of Rochester,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...Charlatanerie des Savans of Menken. — Warton. THE design of this work, as stated by Pope himself, is to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under...every art and science, but injudiciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age ; Lord Oxford, the Bishop of Rochester,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...than Dr. Arbnthnot, both in point of wit and erudition, to promote the object of the society, which was "to ridicule all the false tastes in learning...every art and science, but injudiciously in each." One of the productions of this club was the "Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus," written conjointly by... | |
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