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“... mother by declaring that his schoolmasters, ‘those damned Jesuits, when I was a boy, buggered me to such a degree that I shall never get over it.’ Mrs Pope fled in horror. The anecdote has been disputed (its proximate source, the poet Thomas Gray, liked to embellish), and the Académiciens of the Lanson era were having none of it. But it fits the ...”