Copy 1, Volume 1

The works of Alexander Pope, esq. with notes and illustrations by himself and others. To which are added a new life of the author, an estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks / by William Roscoe. Esq.

  • Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works of Alexander Pope, esq. with notes and illustrations by himself and others. To which are added a new life of the author, an estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks / by William Roscoe. Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attended himself to stimulate the resentment of his friends. Curll appeared at the bar, and knowing himself in no great danger, spoke of Pope with very little reverence: he has, said Curll, a knack at versifying, but in prose I think myself a match for him. When the orders of the House were ex- amined, none of them appeared to have been in- fringed; Curll went away triumphant; and Pope was left to seek some other remedy. “ Curll’s account was, that one evening a man, in a clergyman’s gown, but with a lawyer’s band, brought and offered to sale a number of printed volumes, which he found to be Pope’s epistolary _ correspondence; that he asked no name, and was told none, but gave the price demanded, and thought himself authorised to use his purchase to his own advantage. “'That Curll gave a true account of the transac- tion it is reasonable to believe, because no false- hood was ever detected; and when, some years afterwards, I mentioned it to Lintot, the son of Bernard, he declared his opinion to be, that Pope knew better than any body else how Curll obtained the copies, because another parcel was at the same time sent to himself, for which no price had ever been demanded, as he made known his resolution not to pay a porter, and CORES ETI not to ie with a nameless agent. “Such care had been taken to make them public, that they were sent at once to two booksellers: to. Curll, who was likely to seize them as a prey ; and