"The Bard whom pilf'red Pastorels renown, / Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, / Just writes to make his barrenness appear, / And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year."
An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1734, 1735).<br>
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See <u>An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot.</u> (London: Printed by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head in Fleetstreet, 1734 [1735]). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T5567">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809173.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading in Alexander Pope, <u>The Poems of Alexander Pope</u>, ed. John Butt. (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Alexander Pope</u> (London: Printed for B. Lintot, Lawton Gilliver, H. Lintot, L. Gilliver, and J. Clarke, 1736). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xr  i:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z300463864:3">Link to LION</a>&gt;