Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… culture. A year later, he published a text that was even closer to the eventual ‘Scriblerian spirit’, ‘Proposals for printing a very Curious Discourse [...] a Treatise of the Art of Political Lying, with an Abstract of the First Volume of … years after its dissolution. The most direct outcome of the club’s activities is also one of the latest to appear in print, and has therefore been eclipsed in the minds of both eighteenth-century critics and contemporary scholars by the … that the bookseller Motte published between 1727 and 1732, and that gathered works by Swift, Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot. Printing for the most part material that had already been published before, it does not add anything substantially new in …
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