work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 4727,"","Searching in ""mind"" and ""impression"" HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,"Remarks.
Ver. 149, 150. Jacob, the scourge of Grammar, mark with awe; Nor less revere him, blunderbuss of Law. ]
There may seem some error in these verses, Mr. Jacob having proved our author to have a Respect for him, by this undeniable argument. ""He had once a Regard for my Judgment; otherwise he would never have subscribed Two Guineas to me, for one small Book in octavo."" Jacob's Letter to Dennis, printed in Dennis's Remarks on the Dunciad, pag. 49. Therefore I should think the appellation of Blunderbuss to Mr. Jacob, like that of Thunderbolt to Scipio, was meant in his honour.

Mr. Dennis argues the same way. ""My writings having made great impression on the minds of all sensible men, Mr. P. repented, and to give proof of his Repentance, subscribed to my two volumes of select Works, and afterward to my two Volumes of Letters."" Ibid. pag. 80. We should hence believe, the Name of Mr. Dennis hath also crept into this poem by some mistake. But from hence, gentle reader! thou may'st beware, when thou givest thy money to such Authors, not to flatter thyself that my motives are Good-nature or Charity.",,12507,"•Note to line ""Jacob, the scourge of Grammar, mark with awe,""","""Mr. Dennis argues the same way. 'My writings having made great impression on the minds of all sensible men'""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:37:04 UTC,""