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    The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue
    The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue
    The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue
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    The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue

    By Lord Hervey and A. J. Sambrook

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue - Lord Hervey

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      Title: The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue

      Author: Anonymous

      Lord Hervey

      Editor: A. J. Sambrook

      Release Date: January 3, 2011 [EBook #34821]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SCRIBLERIAD AND THE ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the Online

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      The Augustan Reprint Society

      THE SCRIBLERIAD

      (Anonymous)

      (1742)

      LORD HERVEY

      THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

      VERBAL AND PRACTICAL VIRTUE

      (1742)

      Introduction byA. J. SAMBROOK

      PUBLICATION NUMBER 125

      WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

      University of California, Los Angeles

      1967

      GENERAL EDITORS

      George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles

      Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles

      Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles

      Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

      James L. Clifford, Columbia University

      Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles

      Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

      Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

      Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

      Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

      Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles

      Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      James Sutherland, University College, London

      H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      INTRODUCTION

      Though they are never particularly edifying, literary quarrels may at times be educative. Always savage, attacks on Pope reached their lowest depths of scurrility in 1742, when, in addition to the usual prose and doggerel verse pamphlets, engravings were being circulated portraying Pope in a brothel—this on the basis of the story told in the notorious Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, dated 7 July 1742.[1] The Augustan Reprint Society has already reissued three of the anonymous Grub Street attacks made upon Pope in this busy year,[2] but the present volume is intended to complete the picture of the battle-lines by reprinting a verse attack launched from the court—by Hervey presenting himself as Cibber’s ally—and a verse defence that comes, in point of artistry, clearly from or near Grub Street itself.

      Lord Hervey’s verses, The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue, were published between 21 and 24 August 1742, less than a week after the same author’s prose pamphlet (A Letter to Mr. C—b—r, On his Letter to Mr. P——.) which had compared the art of Pope and Cibber to Cibber’s advantage, and had roundly concluded that Pope was "a second-rate Poet, a bad Companion, a dangerous Acquaintance, an inveterate, implacable Enemy, nobody’s Friend, a noxious Member of Society, and a thorough bad Man." In the course of the prose pamphlet Hervey had suggested that there was a certain incongruity between Pope’s true character and his assumed persona of the virtuous man, and this incongruity forms the main subject of his verse attack. Here Hervey finds examples of the difference between verbal and practical virtue in the lives of Horace, Seneca, and Sallust, before turning to lampoon Pope crossly and ineptly. The attack on Horace is well conceived for Hervey’s purpose and calculated to damage Pope who was in so many eyes, including his own, the modern heir of that ancient poet, but the straight abuse directed against Pope’s person is sad stuff. Such lines as those on the yelping Mungril (p. 6) serve only to show how squarely the well-bred Spaniels taunt in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot had hit its target. Hervey’s poem carried a prefatory letter headed Mr. C—b—er to Mr. P., making out that Cibber had a hand in writing the poem itself. Coming so soon after

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