ABSTRACT
Anonymous, extract from Pope Alexander's Supremacy and Infallibility examin'd (1729), pp. 11–13. Published 13 May 1729. Pope attributed this pamphlet to John Dennis and George Duckett, but E. N. Hooker and D. N. Smith have denied that either were concerned in its production. The passage given here occurs in ‘A Letter to a Noble Lord: Occasion'd by the late Publication of the Dunciad Variorum’ signed ‘Will. Flogg’ and dated 5 April 1729: its author calls The Dunciad a ‘mishapen Lump of Malice and Ill-nature’ and a ‘Master-piece of Scandal’ (p. 14).
