Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… member by the Emperor, providing him with the name Cannibal. After much singing – ‘Then a Mohock, a Mohock I’ll be / No Laws shall restrain / Our Libertine Reign / We’ll riot, drink on, and be free’ 12 – the illicit gathering attacks a … in Miltonic Verse (1712), called them ‘Great Reformers, whose exalted Souls / Despise stiff formal Rules, and Knots of Law’, 13 couching their exploits in mock-heroic tones. Tangentially related, one also finds Alexander Pope ’s The Rape …
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