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… tribulations, and in Jonathan Swift’s Description of a London Shower (1710). 4 It reached a kind of early apotheosis in John Gay’s monumental Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716).  In these works, the streets themselves … Shower’ (1711), ed. Roger Lonsdale, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse (Oxford: OUP, 1984), p. 16-17. 5 . John Gay, Trivia: Or the Art of Walking the Streets (1716), Book 1, lines 1-4. See Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman (eds), …

… 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 …

… later Medmenham Abbey. The latter location became the source of much speculation, both in the press and in literature. John Wilkes’ description of the gardens, which he provided in a letter to his friend John Almon, was widely disseminated, and if not for the public fallout between him and another Medmenhamite, John … general populace, however, that he earned himself the nickname ‘Jeremy Twitcher’, linking him to a character from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728). 20 20 . Town and Country Magazine, November 1769, pp. 561-562. The meetings of the …