Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
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formankind. And on the whole one feels that this character ofPope was truer than Lady Mary Wortley Montaguspresentation of him as the wicked asp of Twicken-ham ; for if he was viciously cruel to CoUey Gibberand the poor Grub Street scribblers whom hesatirises in The Dunciad, he was kindness itself… … WHERE POPE STAYED 31 to the last his close friendship with Swift, Gay, Garth,Atterbury, Bolingbroke, and with Arbuthnot, for whoseservices in helping him thorough this long disease,my life he expressed a touchingly affectionate grati-tude. If he had been the heartless little monster hisenemies…
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