...will smile." March 23, 1727-8, Pope tells Swift : " As for those scribblers, for whom you apprehend I would suppress my 'Dulness,' which, by the way,...to you when you read the treatise of the Bathos." May 10, 1728, Swift says: "You talk of this Dunciad, but I am impatient to have it volare per ora....

...announced to Swift in a letter dated March 23, 1727-8: "As for those scribblers for whom you apprehend I would suppress my ' Dulness ' (which, by the way,...to you when you read the Treatise of the 'Bathos.' " A more important change was in contemplation, and was confidentially announced to Swift on the eve...

...you, and the court more than all the rest of the world. As for those scribblers for whom you apprehend I would suppress my Dulness (which, by the way, for...both in verse and prose, and, as Tully calls it, in ccmmetudine studiorum. Would to God our persons could but as well, and as surely, be inseparable !...

...you, and the court more than all the rest of the world. As for those scribblers for whom you apprehend I would suppress my Dulness (which, by the way, for...Treatise of the Bathos. At all adventures, yours and mine shall stand linked as friends to posterity, both in verse and prose, and (as Tully calls it) in...

...concerned about them: "As for those Scribblers for whom you apprehend I would suppress my Dulness, ... how much that nest of Hornets are my regard, will...to you when you read the Treatise of the Bathos." The Dunciad, he says loftily, "will rid me of those insects." In a later letter to Swift, he deprecates...

...satire. Pope writes to Swift (March 23, 1728, OS), " As for these Scribblers for whom you apprehend I would suppress my Dulness (which, by the way, for...are to call by a more pompous name, The Dunciad)," &c. Pope's titles were sometimes borrowed. The Secchia Rapita of Alexandra Tassoni, was certainly godfather...