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Notes
He later claimed, apparently with justice, that Pope 'had begun with me' (Robert Halsband, Lord Hervey, Eighteenth-Century Courtier [1973], p. 162).
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Complete Letters, ed. R. Halsband (1965-67), II, 97; Pope, Correspondence, ed. G. Sherburn (1956), III, 354, 357.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy, ed. R. Halsband and I. Grundy (1977), pp. 247-255.
Lady Mary, Letters, II, 100, 97; Pope's suppressed Letter to a Noble Lord (Works, ed. Elwin and Courthope [1871-89], V, 430).
Letters and Works (1837), III, 381 n.; 3rd ed., ed. W. Moy Thomas, 1861, II, 464 n.; Emily Morse Symonds ('George Paston'), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [1907], p. 348 n. I have used the Harrowby MSS by kind permission of Lord Harrowby.
Folio: A 2, B2 1-2 3-8. Examples are Bod. M. 3. 19. Art. (6) —Lord Oxford's copy—and BM 162 n. 39.
Folio: A 2 B-C2; i-iv, 1 2-7 8. (P. i is a half-title.) Examples are in Bod. Godwin Pamph. 71 and 1663.
London Evening-Post, 29 and 31 March; St. James's Evening Post, 31 March; Daily Post-Boy, 30 and 31 March. This verse pamphlet in folio uses two of the same printer's ornaments as the Roberts edition of the Verses.
Examples are in Bod. Don. c. 23 (a volume of poems collected by John Craster, d. 1763), BM 11641 l. 1, and BM C 59 h. 9.
The text of 20 March was carefully followed in two octavo reprints: one printed at Edinburgh by Ruddiman, and one at Dublin by Christopher Dickson some time after [30 March 1733], when Swift wrote, 'Faulkener would not print it, nor do I know whether any body here will but there are some copies come from your side' (D. F. Foxon, English Poetry 1701-1750 [1975], V 42 and 43); two Dublin copies in the BM; Swift, Correspondence, ed. H. Williams (1963-65), IV, 135. The London Magazine, on the other hand, reprinted (anonymously) the Roberts text (March 1733).
Bod. M. 3. 19. Art. (18). William Hervey copied this text into his commonplace-book on 11 Feb. 1751 (Hervey MSS, Bury St. Edmunds, 53/1, pp. 37-40), ascribing it to both Lady Mary and Hervey. The Monthly Review reprinted it in 1767 (pp. 46-48), and thence it found its way into collections of Lady Mary's works.
A so-called 'Sixth Edition' followed, having different ornaments and title-page (with quotation from the Book of Proverbs) but no substantive changes (University of Texas Library).
David Foxon, The Lyell Lectures, 1976. The general definition is not affected by the fact that Roberts followed two separate trades: that of printer as well as 'publisher'.
Five pamphlets by Hervey, or partly or probably by him, were issued through Roberts between Nov. 1730 and March 1733; so, in 1742, was his prose attack on Pope, A Letter to Mr. C-b-r, On his Letter to Mr. P. (Halsband, Hervey, pp. 104-105, 107, 135, 145, 289).
Advertised on the same day; but cf. Halsband (Lady Mary, p. 142) and Foxon (V, 39). It was not unknown for an advertisement deliberately to list as 'this day published' a work not yet ready (J. L. Clifford, Young Samuel Johnson [1955], p. 195).
I have followed this text in this article (except when dealing with Hervey's corrections made to the Roberts one), as well as in Lady Mary's Essays and Poems.
As elsewhere in this article when transcribing from MS, I have expanded the ampersand and used [ ] to indicate illegibility.
4th ed., 1755, IV, 79-81; followed by A Select Collection of Modern Poems from the best Authors (1759), pp. 28-30; and Bell's edition of Hammond's Poetical Works (1787), pp. 42-45.
Lady Mary, Letters, II, 100; Pope, Works, V, 436f.; Arbuthnot, lines 376-377; TLS, 2 Sept. 1939, p. 515.
Lady Mary, Works (1803), V, 169. Later editors repeated this statement despite their claims to have seen the poem in her album.
Of course the picture of cool spectators of the monster's rage is hardly convincing, since the poem is itself evidence of the resentment it denies.
This kind of weapon derived from the lampoon battles of the late seventeenth century. Dennis had quoted from Rochestel 'A Lump Deform'd and Shapeless was he Born' on the title page of his True Character of Mr. Pope, and His Writings (1716). Lady Mary performed an exercise in this tradition when she pieced together a poem she called 'A Character' out of abuse flung at each other by Robert Wolseley and William Wharton (Lady Mary, Letters and Works [3rd ed., 1861], 458-459; Poems on Affairs of State, Part III [1698], pp. 1-14).
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