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" ... for half a year or more, the common newspapers, in most of which they had some property, as being hired writers, were filled with the most abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise... "
Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ... - Page 48
1796
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...prefixed, for the most part, at random. Bat such was the number of poets eminent in that art, that some one or other took every letter to himself. All...so violent a fury, that for half a year, or more, in general afford it a most quiet reception, and the larger part accept it as favourably as if it were...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1865 - 506 pages
...that art, that some one or other took every letter to himself. All fell into so violent a fury, thiit for half a year, or more, the common newspapers (in most of which they had some property, as being liired writers) were filled with the most abusive falschoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise;...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1866 - 654 pages
...Saturday, March 21, 1752. dom) ; but such was the number of poets eminent in that art, that some oue or other took every letter to himself ; all fell into...a fury, that, for half a year or more, the common newsjiers (in most of which they had some property, as being hired writers) were filled with the most...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1866 - 386 pages
...week, for these two months past, the town has been persecuted with pamphlets, advertisements,2 letters, the common newspapers (in most of which they had some property, as being hired wr1ters) were filled with the most abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise ;...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...names prefixed, for the most part at random. But such was the number of poets eminent in that%rt, that some one or other took every letter to himself. All...scurrilities they could possibly devise : a liberty noways to be wondered at in those people, and in those papers, that for many years, during the uncontrolled...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1869 - 512 pages
...names prefixed, for the most part at random. But such was the number of poets eminent in that art, that some one or other took every letter to himself. All...scurrilities they could possibly devise : a liberty noways to be wondered at ia those people, and in those papers, that for many years, during the uncontrolled...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ...

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...names prefixed, for the most part at random. But such was the Number of Poets eminent in that art, that some one or other took every letter to himself. All...property, as being hired writers) were filled with the шли abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they couÜ possibly devise ; a liberty no ways to be wondered...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pages
...was the number of poets eminent in that art, that some one or other took every letter to himself. AH fell into so violent a fury, that for half a year,...which they had some property, as being hired writers) ivcre filled with the most abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise : a liberty...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and index

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...rushed into print, and as Savage says in his ' History,' " for half a year or mere the common newspapers •were filled with the most abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise." Pope, it appears, did not reveal even to Swift the real cause of the delay in publishing the ' Dunciad.'...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...names prefixed, for the most part at random. But such was the number of poets eminent in that art, that some one or other took every letter to himself. All...wondered at in those people, and in those papers, that f. T many years, during the uncontrolled license of the press, had aspersed almost all the great characters...
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