Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… projects remain rather vague, though Pope acknowledged him as a contributor to the ‘Essay concerning the origin of the sciences’, and Parnell also helped Pope with his Homeric translations. At the other end of the social spectrum, but … satire is as Swiftian as it gets, the third book carries the most obviously Scriblerian overtones, with its mocking of science and learning, a subject for which the original Scriblerians had relied mostly on Arbuthnot once more, since he …
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