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APPENDIX.

I. Essay on Criticism; collation of the First Edition (1711) with

the received text.

II. The Dunciad.

I. List of Editions.

2. Collation of the First Edition (1728, 1742) with the received text.

3. List of Prefaces, &c.

I. ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

VARIATIONS OF THE EDITION OF 1711 FROM THE
RECEIVED TEXT.

L. 30, 31. Those hate as rivals all that write; and others
But envy wits, as eunuchs envy lovers

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L. 80, 81.

L. 82.

still t'extend them more

That art is best which most resembles her;
Which still presides, yet never does appear

thus the sprightly soul

There are whom Heaven has blest with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it.

L. 90. Nature, like Monarchy

ever are at strife

Here called L.

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Set up themselves, and drove a sep'rate trade

L. 116. These lost the sense. . .

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L. 130.
L. 137.

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your notions bring

And did his work to rules as strict confine After 160 L has

But care in poetry must still be had,

It asks discretion ev'n in running mad.

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L. 265. L. 270.

but parts they prize As e'er could D---s, of the laws o' th' stage

L. 283. The stage can ne'er so vast a throng

L. 320.

L. 338.

L. 362-3. Not in L

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style exprest with such, is right or wrong

various lays . .

the dull believers quit

our zealous isle

our ready wit

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L. 463. New Bl

L. 485. Some fair idea. .

L. 490.

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L. 502, 3.

L. 504.

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The more his trouble as the more admir'd,
Where wanted, scorn'd, and envied where acquir'd
Maintain'd with pains, but forfeited with ease

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L. 567. Speak, when you 're sure, yet speak with diffidence. L. 575. And things ne'er known

wit, art, and learning join

to your judgment's due

...

L. 576.

not approved

L. 586.

And stares, Tremendous! . . .

let dull fools be vain

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old dull course they keep

L. 600.

L. 624. Nay, run to altars .

After 648 L has

L. 651.

Not only Nature did his laws obey,

But Fancy's boundless empire own'd his sway
Received his rules. . .

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L. 673, 4.

Nor thus alone the curious eye to please,

But to be found, when need requires, with ease
L. 689. All was believ'd but nothing.
Not in L

L. 723, 4.

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II. THE DUNCIAD.

I. LIST OF EDITIONS.

1. The following is a list of the most important editions of the Dunciad. All these are in the Bodleian Library, and have been minutely examined. No other edition, to judge from the complete list given in Lowndes' Bibliographers' Manual, possesses any features of novelty or interest which these have not.

A. The Dunciad, an Heroic poem, in Three Books, 12m0. Dublin, printed, London Reprinted for A. Dodd. 1728. Frontispiece, an altar composed of dull books (Cibber's Plays, Ogilby's Virgil, Theobald's Shakespeare Restored, &c.), with an owl perched upon it. (This seems to have been the original edition, printed probably in England, as explained in the Introduction, p. xxxii. note, but sent over to Dublin to make its first appearance. The name of 'Dodd' appears to be fictitious; no trace of any bookseller with that name can be found.)

A'. The Dunciad, an Heroic Poem, in Three Books, 12m0. The Second Edition. Dublin, Printed; London, reprinted for A. Dodd, 1728. (The frontispiece is the same as in A, from which this edition only differs in setting right certain flagrant errors of the press.)

B. The Dunciad Variorum, with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. London. Printed for A. Dod, 1729, 4to. The title vignette is of an ass munching thistles, and carrying panniers laden with books, on the top of which is a small owl. (This is the 'first avowed edition' of Lowndes. came forth with all that 'pomp of prefaces' of which Swift speaks in one of his letters; of these pieces a list and description will be found at p. 238.)

It

C. The Dunciad, with Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. London, Printed for Lawton Gilliver, at Homer's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet

Street, 1729. 12mo. (The owl frontispiece, slightly modified, re-appears in this edition. The prefaces, &c., which it contains are the same with those of B, except for the omission of the Addenda of Scriblerus, calling attention to misprints.)

C'. The same title-page as the last, with the addition of the words The Second Edition, with some additional Notes.' 1729; 12mo. (The frontispiece is again the ass and panniers. Contents as in C, with the addition of five pages of 'Errata,' headed 'M. Scriblerus Lectori.')

D. The Dunciad, in three books. Written in the year 1727. With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, 4to. No date; but Lowndes assigns it to 1733. (This edition agrees generally with C and C'.)

E. The New Dunciad, as it was found in the year 1741. With the illustrations of Scriblerus and Notes Variorum. Printed for T. Cooper, 1742, 4to. (This is Book IV. on its first appearance.)

E'. Title-page as in E; yet it must be of later date; for in the single passage, between lines 39 and 43, where this edition differs from E, the difference is continued in F and all later editions. 12mo.

F. The Dunciad, in Four Books. Printed according to the complete copy found in the year 1742. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus and Notes Variorum. T. Cooper, 1743. (Here at last we have the poem in its perfect shape, as it is now read. To the former stock of prefaces, &c., are added in this edition the Hypercritica of Aristarchus, and his Dissertation on the Hero of the Poem, both supplied by Warburton.)

In the following collation the various editions of the Dunciad are designated by the letters under which we have just described them. The standard of comparison is the edition of 1743 (F), which is in substantial agreement with all the modern editions. The degree and mode in which A, the earliest edition, varies from this standard, either by omission, substitution, or transposition, will be found exactly indicated; and Pope's modus operandi, when he resolved, and carried out his purpose, to substitute Cibber for Theobald, may be seen at a glance. The numbering of the lines is of course that of

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