Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

PASSAGES FROM POPE

By J. W. C.

In addition to the query of "P.C.S.S." (No. 13. p. 201.), in which I take great interest, I would beg leave to ask what evidence there is that Quarles had a *pension*? He had, indeed, a small place in the household of James the First's queen, Anne; and if he had a pension on her death, it would have been from James, not from Charles. I would also, in reference to Pope, beg leave to propound another query. In the "Imitation of the 2nd Sat. Book I. of Horace," only to be found in modern editions, but attributed, I fear, too justly to Pope, there is an allusion to "poor E——*s*," who suffered by "…

Topics: Victorian Literature, Royal History, Genealogy

Locations: London, Ireland