SCRIBLERUS, MARTINUS

SCRIBLERUS, MARTINUS
   the subject of a fictitious memoir published in Pope's works and ascribed to ARBUTHNOT (q.v. ARBUTHNOT, JOHN), intended to ridicule the pedantry which affects to know everything, but knows nothing to any purpose.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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