ABSTRACT
POPE: Oldham is a very undelicate writer. He has strong rage, but ’tis too much like Billingsgate. Lord Rochester had much more delicacy and more knowledge of mankind. [Osborn, i. 473],
c) 1734
POPE: Oldham is too rough and coarse. Rochester is the medium between him and the Earl of Dorset. Lord Dorset is the best of all those writers.
