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Offline Deskman

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1889 diary p1 Addison & Pope
« on: Wednesday 21 February 18 21:36 GMT (UK) »
Another word and a phrase has come back to bother me.

The diarist, having read page 609 of The English humourists of the eighteenth century by Thackeray, comments on a quotation from Alexander Pope’s satirical “Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot” that sums up Pope's view of Joseph Addison, a respected literary critic of the time.

'English Humourists   “Damn with faint praise, assent with
civil leer & without sneering, move the rest to sneer”  in
satire on Addison by Pope. Now jealous of Addisons Cleaque. To Pope most of the Humourists
'

The xxxxxx words are problematic to me, but that makes the whole interlinear phrase difficult to place. Can you help?

Thanks for all the help so far. Bold text thanks to help here.

The English humourists can be found here http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29363/29363-h/29363-h.html#toc101 and here https://archive.org/details/englishhumorists01thac


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Re: 1889 diary p1 Addison & Pope
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 21 February 18 21:51 GMT (UK) »
I think it says ‘now jealous of Addison’s cleaque’ (clique)
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Re: 1889 diary p1 Addison & Pope
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 21 February 18 22:07 GMT (UK) »
Thanks JenB,
I too think it looks like
‘now jealous of Addison’s cleaque’
But then the next two words are to Pope
I'm not comfortable with now jealous of Addison’s cleaque to Pope.
Am I missing something?

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Re: 1889 diary p1 Addison & Pope
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 21 February 18 22:18 GMT (UK) »
Now I get it!

'English Humourists  “Damn with faint praise, assent with
civil leer & without sneering, move the rest to sneer”  in
satire on Addison by Pope. Now jealous of Addisons cleaque. To Pope most of the Humourists

fast men & improvident...'

Thanks JenB for the massive nudge.