Note 53 — STRAWBERRY HILL.

See Pope’s love-letter to Lady M. W. Montagu, in which he talks of “Momus his project,” and gets in, neck and shoulders, Herod and Herodias, Jupiter and Curtius, to show off his power of “wit and raillery,” and prove the strength of his passion by the force of his learning. “Before Addison and Swift,” says Walpole, “style was scarce aimed at even by our best authors.”