Scriblerus

‘Martin Scriblerus’, the name of a fictional antiquarian and pedant invented by members of the Scriblerus club, including Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744;

Letter 162 1794

"Scriblerus" Club, which was started by Swift, and was finally dissolved by the quarrels of Oxford and Bolingbroke.

A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

Arising partly out of the performance of "Scriblerus", Pope and Swift published in 1727-28 three volumes of their "Miscellanies", which contained among other things Pope's "Treatise on the Bathos, or the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

But this Lydian mood, far from having the mollifying effect attributed to it by Scriblerus, threw several Deputies into a rage; and the conductor was reprimanded for daring to insult the ears of the legislature with strains which seemed to lament the tyrant.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part IV., 1795 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

Scriblerus, ~Peri Bathous~, or the _Art of Sinking in Poetry_.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

_Scriblerus_, though a man of learning, and frequently right in his opinion, has here certainly hazarded a rash conjecture.

Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Gregory Griffin

Here _Scriblerus_, who, by the bye, is very fond of making unnecessary alterations, proposes reading "_Score_" instead of "_sore_," meaning thereby to particularize, that the beating bestowed by this Monarch, consisted of _twenty_ stripes.

Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Gregory Griffin

People laugh over his fun in the "Memoirs of Scriblerus," and are commonly satisfied to think it Pope's.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

We may observe, that there is nothing in which our Poet has better succeeded, than in keeping up an unremitted attention in his readers to the main instruments, the machinery of his poem, viz. The _Tarts_; insomuch, that the aforementioned _Scriblerus_ has sagely observed, that

Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Gregory Griffin

But this Lydian mood, far from having the mollifying effect attributed to it by Scriblerus, threw several Deputies into a rage; and the conductor was reprimanded for daring to insult the ears of the legislature with strains which seemed to lament the tyrant.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady