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Updated: May 16, 2025
To the title of The Vernoniad, there was added a lengthy mock-title in Greek, the whole being presented as a lost fragment by Homer, describing, in epic style, the mission of one "Mammon" sent by Satan to baffle the fleets of a nation engaged in war with Iberia.
At least we know that soon after this year he writes of having lately suffered accidents and waded through distresses, sufficient to move the pity of his readers, were he "fond enough of Tragedy" to make himself "the Hero of one." One of the rare fragments of Fielding's autograph, refers both to this pamphlet, and to the Vernoniad: "Mr Nourse, Y'rs "Hen. Ffielding. "April 20 1741."
In the same number, and at the same page of the Gentleman's Magazine which contains the advertisement of the Vernoniad, there is a reference to a famous novel which had appeared in November 1740, two months earlier, and had already attained an extraordinary popularity. Dr. Barbauld as "Dr.
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