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Updated: May 12, 2025
And what strengthens the wit more than wine?" "Get thee gone Satan. I'm not to be tempted by a paradox." Vane did not speak with conviction. His spirits were low. Curll's offer was worrying him. To be in the service of such a man, whose personal character was as infamous as some of the books he published, was a humiliation. It meant the prostitution of his faculties.
A young man should dress smartly. What's his life worth to him unless women look kindly upon him? Do you expect they care for a shabby gallant?" Vane was silent. Some of Curll's words had gone home. "I'll think it over," said he at last. "That's right. Think over it and if you're in love, as you ought to be, ask your girl if I'm not right.
His description of Eliza is a savage caricature of her portrait by Kirkall prefixed to the first edition of her collected novels, plays, and poems . Curll's "Key to the Dunciad," quoted with evident relish by Pope in the Variorum notes, recorded on the authority of contemporary scandal that the "two babes of love" were the offspring of a poet and a bookseller.
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