Scriblerus Club (1770) [ Practices / People ]
… together with Swift and Parnell, had sometime before formed themselves into a society, called the Scribblerus Club, and I should suppose they commemorated him thus, as being an absent member. It is past a doubt that they wrote many … been few poetical so|cieties, more talked of, or productive of a greater variety of whimsical conceits than this of the Scriblerus club, but how long it lasted I cannot exactly determine. … "But in the connexion of wits, interest has … Gay, Dr. Arbuthnot, &c. &c. By Dr. Goldsmith. London: printed for T. Davies, 1770, p. 32-37. Full text from ECCO TCP. … Scriblerus Club (1770) …
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