mdmd(4) - questions: "Bubb" Dodington

[Brian D. McCary]

I am reposting this for Adam

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>From A.Rounce at Bristol.ac.uk Fri Jul 18 14:56 CDT 1997
From: AS Rounce <A.Rounce at bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: mdmd(4) - questions: "Bubb" Dodington

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> 113-31    George (Bubb) Dodington?

Crazy name, crazy guy. Dodington (1691-1762) is famous for his
Machiavellian political diary (publ. 1784; 1965), and for being the patron
of a number of poets & writers, chiefly James Thomson, Edward Young
and Henry Fielding. Pope hated him, and immortalised him
in the "Epistle to Arbuthnot":
     But still the great have kindness in reserve,
     He help'd to bury whom he helped to starve.    
     (ll.247-248)

Dodington's name became a byword for aristocratic hauteur, tactless
arrogance and amorality (c.f Pope's 4th Moral Essay and the first Epilogue
to the Satires), so the irony in Mason's comments on him on p.114 is quite
overt.

Best,

Adam Rounce.    


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