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  • Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

    William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15