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… France. There he met the exiled Pretender in 1716, marking the beginning of his ever-shifting allegiances. In his Moral Essays (1731-35), Alexander Pope , who lived near Wharton in Twickenham, describes him as a deeply ambivalent person: ‘A … dies, sad out-cast of each church and state / And, harder still! flagitious, yet not great’. 1 1 . Alexander Pope, Moral Essays: In Four Epistles (Glasgow: printed by R. Urie, 1754), p. 16, lines 204-205. Wharton’s contrarian streak revealed … Churchill, The Candidate, 1764, p. 33. As an answer, Sandwich accused Wilkes of having composed the incendiary An Essay on Woman (~1755), a sexual and blasphemous parody of Pope ’s An Essay on Man (1733-34) addressed to Fanny Murray. …
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