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… it quickly became a symbol as well as an address. It was used as a reference to bad writing already in 1630 by the poet John Taylor, and gained traction throughout the English Civil War, which was fought in writing as well as with actual … journalism, mostly attacking Walpole and his government in numerous journals and newspapers. Then, in 1753, according to John Nichols’s account from 1812, he made it abundantly clear that ‘he was ready to be hired to any cause; […] he … as part of the Scriblerian satire that Pope developed together with his friends Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, John Gay and Thomas Parnell (see Scriblerus Club ), which also implied the social and intellectual coherence of pedants and …
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