Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… for printing a very Curious Discourse [...] a Treatise of the Art of Political Lying, with an Abstract of the First Volume of the said Treatise’. In addition, his elevation to the position of physician of Chelsea Hospital provided him … A more or less direct translation of the collaborative Scriblerian spirit into publication can be found in the four volumes of Miscellanies that the bookseller Motte published between 1727 and 1732, and that gathered works by Swift, … conversation, creation, and publication. As Pope wrote to Swift in 1727: I am prodigiously pleas'd with this joint-volume, in which methinks we look like friends, side by side, serious and merry by turns, conversing interchangeably, and …
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