That knowledge he had derived partly from books, and partly from sources which had long been closed: from old Grub Street traditions; from the talk of forgotten poetasters and pamphleteers, who had long been lying in parish vaults; from the recollections of such men as Gilbert Walmesley, who had conversed with the wits of Button, Cibber, who had mutilated the plays of two generations of dramatists, Orrery, who had been admitted to the society of Swift and Savage, who had rendered services of no very honourable kind to Pope. [Please select]
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He has an animated idea of good poetry, and a just contempt of poetasters in the different species of it. [Please select]
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His first book, consisting of nine satires, appears in a manner entirely levelled at low and abject poetasters. [Please select]
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He used it as a living language; the poetasters of the eighteenth century wrote it as a dead language, as boys make Latin verses. [Please select]
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